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Wood, Christine. "Memory at Work: Maurice Halbwachs, Sigmund Freud, and the Sociology of Knowledge in Contemporary Studies of Cultural Memory" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Sociological Association, Montreal Convention Center, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, Aug 10, 2006 <Not Available>. 2009-05-24 <http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p105079_index.html>

Wood, C. V. , 2006-08-10 "Memory at Work: Maurice Halbwachs, Sigmund Freud, and the Sociology of Knowledge in Contemporary Studies of Cultural Memory" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Sociological Association, Montreal Convention Center, Montreal, Quebec, Canada Online <PDF>. 2009-05-24 from http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p105079_index.html

Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript Abstract: Although collective memory and the social construction of memory have an intimate connection, the two approaches have somewhat disparate objects of analysis. Halbwachs� classical work on collective memory focuses on the relationship between individual memory and the social collective. As classical approaches to the sociology of knowledge grow less popular, the study of the social construction of memory relates less to Karl Mannheim�s question of �how men actually think,� and more to the analysis of collective memory in terms of specific cultural objects or figures and the way that they are memorialized. Indeed, cultural sociologists have made major contributions to our understanding of the way that social groups memorialize and sustain beliefs about their own histories. However in this essay I argue that a production of culture approach fails to take into account the constitution of memory itself. As a result of such limitations in the sociology of culture, sociology is not in dialogue with scholars in other disciplines that address cultural memory. This paper suggests a return to foundational theories of collective memory and, by consequence, to the classical question raised by Emile Durkheim on the relationship between the individual and society. Although this paper is not based on empirical research, this essay is an attempt to broaden the scope of sociological thought on memory by placing Halbwachs in conversation with Sigmund Freud and contemporary work on cultural memory.

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