社会记忆研究:从“集体记忆”到记忆实践的历史社会学

尽管有多个学科和不同背景的学术研究领域做了大量的工作,社会记忆研究仍然是一个缺乏固定范式的、没有中心的、跨学科的事业。要纠正这种相对混乱的局面,我们有必要推进多项工作,将社会记忆视为一个有用的传统和一个可加工的范围,为将来的工作奠定基础。我们需要追溯这项事业的家世,回顾围绕社会记忆之基本定义产生的争论,勾勒出历史的视角,并评价与社会记忆静力学和动力学有关的社会学理论。     

Calling 911 during episodes of domestic abuse: What justifies a call for help?

This preliminary investigation built on the work of Johnson and Sigler (2000), indicating that the public was highly intolerant of wife abuse and increasingly willing to criminalize its occurrence. Videotaped or written scenes containing domestic violence were presented to college students who were asked to indicate the seriousness of each situation, as well as respond to the question, “Is a call to 911 emergency services justified?” The results suggested that these participants were highly intolerant of both physical and nonphysical spousal abuse and that they reliably viewed 911 calls to be justified following scenes with physical violence and no physical injury, as well as scenes with verbal threats, but no physical violence.     

Between Chaos and Diversity: Is Social Memory Studies a Field?

Is (or are) memory studies, social or otherwise, a field? If so, does anything hold it together beyond the mere use of the phrase “collective memory”? Memory studies is simultaneously still in its charismatic phase, though it no longer has a right to be, as well as highly resistant to efforts to escape from it, though it clearly needs to do so. To be a field, it needs a memory of its own.