Kollektives Gedächtnis und die gesellschaftliche Konstruktion der Wirklichkeit

Despite intensive work on the research field of memory culture, two problems persist to this day: the relationship between the individual and the collective remains largely unresolved, and the existence of a "true," unadulterated memory is too often assumed. This "Theory of Memory Cultures" offers a solution to these problems by analyzing memory culture as part of society's store of knowledge - systematically in terms of its emergence, structure, and function. It adds the chapter of memory to the description of the cultural existence of man as an animal symbolicum. In doing so, the work brings together the constructivist sociology of knowledge of Peter L. Berger and Thomas Luckmann with the lifeworld analysis of Alfred Schütz. On this theoretical basis it systematizes the results of memory research, from the neur.