scholarly journals Family memory and Its mythology: from the theory to daily practice

2021 ◽  
pp. 38-50
Author(s):  
Andrei Gennadievich Ivanov
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Systematic Approach ◽  
Social Memory ◽  
Daily Practice ◽  
Dynamic Aspect ◽  
Narrative Interviews ◽  
Space And Time ◽  
The Social ◽  
History Of ◽  
Life Work

This article is dedicated to examination of the dynamic aspect and mythological dimension of social memory. The structure of the latter distinguishes the two levels – “archaic” and ”conjunctural”. The “archaic” level plays a determinant role for the current functionality of mythology , including the mythology of family memory, which is interrelated with such spheres of everyday life as life, work, and recreation). The transformation of family mythology is viewed on the example of manifestation of myth-containing phenomena, such as the sacred leader (hero) and the victim, in everyday life. The following changes are indicated: the representations on causality and ratio between the part and the whole are imparted sacred meaning, while the representations on space and time are being rationalized. The systematic approach was applied towards studying the mythology of family memory. The theoretical conclusions are reinforced by the results of analysis of a series of narrative interviews conducted among the residents of Lipetsk Region about the history of their families. It is established that the basic (constitutive) events for the mythology of family memory indicate more abstract and profound phenomena (for example, hero or victim) than for the social memory. Special work is required for identification of these phenomena and further reconstruction of the mythology of family memory in each particular case. Special attention is given to observations of one of the respondents on the miracle as the phenomenon immanently inherent in life.

scholarly journals Garden City: Everyday Life of the Sixties in the Soviet Social Memory

2020 ◽  
Vol 65 (4) ◽  
pp. 1124-1135
Author(s):  
Natalia L. Pushkareva ◽  
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Alexander V. Zhidchenko ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Socialist Competition ◽  
Social Memory ◽  
Urban Housing ◽  
Garden City ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Sixties ◽  
Historical Episode ◽  
History Of

The article is devoted to the history of Soviet urban everyday life at the turn of the 1950s — 1960s. and its reflection in the social memory of the inhabitants of Omsk, the problem of exploiting the enthusiasm of Soviet people during the years of the Khrushchev thaw. A forgotten episode in the history of urban housing construction in a Siberian city is associated with the socialist competition between Omsk and Leningrad in 1959 for the title of an exemplary Garden City. The very fact of the improvement of the urban environment by the forces of the townspeople and the method of socialist competition led to a lot of contradictions — between the general and the private, between free and paid, between the ideological and the real. And this historical episode revealed many aspects of the behavior of ordinary workers of the Soviet industrial city, with their explicit and hidden desires, aspirations, upbringing and the degree of “faith in a bright future”. The creation of a garden city by means of the public work of the residents became a significant idea that could unite everyone. It coincided with the very atmosphere of the “Khrushchev thaw” when the most daring ideas and projects were born and implemented. The study of the history of urban non-capital everyday life was carried out on materials of oral history (memoirs of the old residents of the city of Omsk), a large complex of archival sources, periodicals, etc.

“Sou Inglesa! Sou Inglesa!”: Memórias de uma Menina Anglo-Portuguesa (1907-1930)

2017 ◽  
pp. 141-155
Author(s):  
Miguel Alarcão
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Social History ◽  
Travel Literature ◽  
Growing Up ◽  
Recent Past ◽  
Self And Other ◽  
Cultural Encounter ◽  
The Social ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Times

Textualizing the memory(ies) of physical and cultural encounter(s) between Self and Other, travel literature/writing often combines subjectivity with documental information which may prove relevant to better assess mentalities, everyday life and the social history of any given ‘timeplace’. That is the case with Growing up English. Memories of Portugal 1907-1930, by D. J. Baylis (née Bucknall), prefaced by Peter Mollet as “(…) a remarkably vivid and well written observation of the times expressed with humour and not little ‘carinho’. In all they make excellent reading especially for those of us interested in the recent past.” (Baylis: 2)

Daily Practice and Social Memory at Çatalhöyük

2004 ◽  
Vol 69 (1) ◽  
pp. 17-40 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ian Hodder ◽  
Craig Cessford
Keyword(s):  
Social Memory ◽  
Near East ◽  
Daily Practice ◽  
Social Practices ◽  
Social Processes ◽  
Domestic Space ◽  
Social Rules ◽  
The Social ◽  
Agricultural Societies ◽  
Central Turkey

This article is concerned with the social processes involved in the formation of large agglomerated villages in the Neolithic of the Near East and Anatolia, with particular reference to Çatalhöyük in central Turkey. The article aims to show that practice theories (dealing with how social rules are learned in daily practice within the house) can be used to interpret the patterning of recurrent construction and use activities within domestic space at Çatalhöyük. The regulation of social practices in the house created village-wide social rules, but it is argued that the habituated behavior was also commemorative and involved in the construction of social memory. Sitewide and house-based specific memories are documented at Çatalhöyük. The evidence for habituated practice and social memory at other sites is briefly discussed, and is argued to be relevant for the formation of settled agricultural societies.

The Joy of Everyday Life: Microhistory and the History of Everyday Life in the Socialist Dictatorships

2008 ◽  
Vol 34-35 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 185-218 ◽  
Author(s):  
Péter Apor
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Social History ◽  
Central Europe ◽  
East Central Europe ◽  
East Central ◽  
Cultural Behavior ◽  
Life Styles ◽  
The Social ◽  
History Of ◽  
New Generation

In the last two decades, historians have faced difficult methodological challenges in exploring former party archives in East Central Europe and in reconstructing the political history of communist regimes. A remarkable answer to this challenge has been provided by a new generation of historians who turned their attention to the social history of socialist dictatorships in East Central Europe, and took a peculiar interest in the “small,” the “mundane” and the “insignificant” of everyday life under communism. Their laborious research has focused not on high politics, but on local communities. Their works deconstructed the life-styles, living conditions, fashion and dressing, leisure, tourism and consumption, sexual habits and childcare of ordinary people. The current study provides a historiographic overview of the major thematic and methodological orientations of the history of the everyday life in socialist dictatorships. It focuses on two distinct but overlapping directions of research: the analysis of the daily habitual organization of communist societies; and the communist authorities’ attempt at a micro-politics of everyday life. The study argues that, while the new social history of the socialist dictatorships has greatly added to our understanding of significant aspects of the social and political structure of these countries, it has also constructed a representation of everyday life as essentially impertinent to power. In doing so, it ignored the capacity of habitual social and cultural behavior in producing techniques of control and discipline.

scholarly journals Review of the Monograph: Sizov S.G. The White Capital of Russia: Everyday Life of Omsk (June 1918 – November 1919). Omsk, SibADI Publ., 2018. 240 p

2020 ◽  
Vol 7 (3 (27)) ◽  
pp. 159-162
Author(s):  
Mikhail V. Shilovsky
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Everyday Life ◽  
Detailed Analysis ◽  
Large Volume ◽  
Daily Life ◽  
Valuable Contribution ◽  
The Social ◽  
History Of ◽  
The City ◽  
Detailed Picture

The review provides a detailed analysis of the research of doctor of science S.G. Sizov, dedicated to the daily life of Omsk during the Civil war. It is noted that the author, using archival materials and a large volume of various periodicals, was able to give a detailed picture of everyday life in Omsk during one of the most difficult periods in the history of Russia in the twentieth century, when the city became the White capital of Russia. Despite some omissions, according to the reviewer, the monograph makes a valuable contribution to the study of everyday life not only in Omsk, but throughout Russia during the social cataclysm of 1917-1920.

Some Thoughts on Polish-Jewish Relations

2004 ◽  
pp. 278-287
Author(s):  
Władysław Bartoszewski
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Social History ◽  
Orthodox Jews ◽  
Overwhelming Majority ◽  
The Other ◽  
The Social ◽  
History Of ◽  
Separate Identity

This chapter assesses Polish–Jewish relations. The Poles and Jews shared the same lands within the same country for hundreds of years. The overwhelming majority of the Jews of Poland rejected assimilationist tendencies, steadfastly maintaining the primary value of their separate identity, and a significant number of Orthodox Jews preferred actual isolation from the non-Jewish environment. The Poles too, having numerous links with the Jews arising from the practicalities of everyday life, were not overly eager to break down barriers dividing them. Each side also displayed tendencies of superiority towards the other. Ultimately, the hundreds of years of Polish Jewry demand historical remembrance. Despite the unfavourable environment in Poland, serious interest has developed in the social history of Jews in Poland, in the religion, customs, and culture of people who are no longer there.

scholarly journals Shadows of the Plantation? A Social History of Suriname’s Bauxite Town Moengo

2011 ◽  
Vol 85 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 215-246 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anouk de Koning
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Social History ◽  
Statistical Data ◽  
Oral Narratives ◽  
Social Community ◽  
The Social ◽  
History Of ◽  
New Industry

This article explores the social history of Suriname’s first bauxite town, Moengo, founded in the late 1910s. It recounts the rise of a new industry that drew workers away from the plantations and urban artisanal occupations to work in a massive, highly organized and orchestrated organization-cum-social community. Using oral narratives about life in Moengo, as well as census and other statistical data, this contribution asks whether everyday life in the mining enclave echoed features of the plantation.

scholarly journals Social Memory in the Light of the Study of Information Space and Time

2021 ◽  
pp. 93-99
Author(s):  
Rail’ Gazizov ◽  
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Aydar Kayumov ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Social Relations ◽  
Cross Sections ◽  
Information Society ◽  
Social Practice ◽  
Social Space ◽  
Social Memory ◽  
Information Space ◽  
Self Awareness ◽  
Space And Time ◽  
The Social

This article deals with the philosophical analysis of social memory in the conditions of the development of today’s information society. In the paper, the social and intellectual cross-sections of information space and time are investigated. These cross-sections are directly related to the analysis of society’s legal consciousness, which seems to, so to say, lag behind the reflections about information space and time. The authors note that social space and time are formed through achieving the unity of information space and time. This is largely facilitated by social memory, which in its essence is a culture, and culture is connected with self-awareness. Culture as memory – historical and moral, obtained through social practice – provides the practice of material and spiritual production. Social memory acts as a kind of qualitative indicator of the state of society and contributes to the transition of information into knowledge, whose elements are characterized by the intense nature of their interaction. This intensity is explained by the fact that knowledge, unlike information, stands guard over the past, protecting it from external attempts to present anything positive that had been as something that had never happened and make it disappear in the annals of time. Philosophy is related to the analysis of the ultimate grounds of information space and time, which increases the intensity of interaction between the elements of the social system. At the same time, social memory increases the degree of interaction between existing values. It should be noted that social memory is very important for further research on the functioning of information society. It is a prerequisite for social forecasting of the development of cultural and social relations. Social memory is a way of existence of knowledge as a form of realization of human creative potential.

scholarly journals Public mood of the Kuibyshev Region residents in 1990-1991 in the context of the social history of Russia

2018 ◽  
Vol 7 (4) ◽  
pp. 263-270
Author(s):  
Alexey Vladimirovich Zakharchenko ◽  
Maksim Sergeevich Kirdyashev ◽  
Ksenia Viktorovna Pankeeva
Keyword(s):  
Life History ◽  
Everyday Life ◽  
Social History ◽  
Emotional Reaction ◽  
Soviet Society ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Social ◽  
Chronological Period ◽  
History Of ◽  
Political Apathy

This paper deals with 1990-1991 as a turning point, which marked the collapse of the policy of perestroika, the communist institutions of power became a relic of the past, metamorphoses took place in the social structure of the Soviet society. The focus of everyday life history is the reality in the interpretation of its immediate participants, who were witnesses of the events of those years. Such events can relate to different spheres of life, and participants in these events can be people of different social strata. Newspapers and magazines are considered to be an irreplaceable source of information for studying the relationship between government and society in this chronological period. Letters and appeals of citizens from the regional newspaper Volzhskaya Kommuna were taken into consideration. There were rubrics expressing public opinion about the dynamics of the perestroika policy. The emotional reaction reflected in the letters is of great interest. The sources clearly record the main tendencies and stages of the public mood that prevailed in that period, thereby transfer the political apathy that spread in the society. The information received from the sources makes a definite contribution to the study of the everyday life history and can serve as a basis for research and reveal new aspects in social history.

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