Typology of historical memory about the World War II: Methodological aspects of the study (on the example of the RUDN students)
- Authors: Puzanova Z.V.1, Narbut N.P.1,2, Larina T.I.1, Tertyshnikova A.G.1
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Affiliations:
- RUDN University
- Federal Center of Theoretical and Applied Sociology of the Russian Academy of Sciences
- Issue: Vol 20, No 2 (2020)
- Pages: 292-306
- Section: Contemporary society: the urgent issues and prospects for development
- URL: https://journals.rudn.ru/sociology/article/view/23871
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.22363/2313-2272-2020-20-2-292-306
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The study of mass consciousness is one of the most pressing sociological issues. Historical memory is a part of mass consciousness, and it is obvious that the historical memory about any event has its specifics in different societies. Today memories about the World War II became an object of manipulation for various political forces that aim at changing public opinion in favor of particular parties, and the youth is especially affected by such influence. The student youth is a reactive social force and can subsequently transfer such influence into actions. Therefore, the study of the international students’ types of historical memory provides a unique opportunity to reveal the global perception of the World War II. The article presents a typology of historical memory based on the classical structure of social attitude as consisting of affective (views on the justice of the war results), cognitive (knowledge of the war milestones) and behavioral components (knowledge and participation in commemorative events, and family stories). There are nine types of historical memory: personal-historical, dispositional, formal-historical, emotional-historical, fragmentary-historical, mythological-historical, subjective-historical, value-historical, ‘lack-of-memory’. The majority of students have an emotional-historical, formal-historical types and ‘lack-of-memory’. Without ‘lacking-memory’ students, the share of which is smaller among Russian students, foreign students have mainly an emotional-historical and formal-historical types of memory, while Russian students rather formal-historical and value-historical types. The article explains the way for identifying types of memory. Thus, it can be useful for methodologists and researchers in sociology of history.
About the authors
Zh. V. Puzanova
RUDN University
Author for correspondence.
Email: puzanova-zhv@rudn.ru
доктор социологических наук, профессор кафедры социологии, заведующая социологической лабораторией
Miklukho-Maklaya St., 6, Moscow, 117198, RussiaN. P. Narbut
RUDN University; Federal Center of Theoretical and Applied Sociology of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Email: narbut-np@rudn.ru
доктор социологических наук, заведующий кафедрой социологии Российского университета дружбы народов; главный научный сотрудник Федерального научно-исследовательского социологического центра
Miklukho-Maklaya St., 6, Moscow, 117198, Russia; Krzhizhanovskogo St., 24/5-5, Moscow, Russia, 117218T. I. Larina
RUDN University
Email: larina-ti@rudn.ru
кандидат социологических наук, старший преподаватель кафедры социологии
Miklukho-Maklaya St., 6, Moscow, 117198, RussiaA. G. Tertyshnikova
RUDN University
Email: tertyshnikova-ag@rudn.ru
кандидат социологических наук, ассистент кафедры социологии
Miklukho-Maklaya St., 6, Moscow, 117198, RussiaReferences
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