THE PROBLEM OF STUDY HISTORICAL AND SOCIAL MEMORY

Abstract

The article aims at exposing the issue of historical and social memory correlation. The past bears a special status in a dynamically developing society. Globalistic tendencies are corrected by an assimilation of traditions and historical reality. The range of issues, touched upon in the article, remains pertinent nowadays. Distinctive features of a historical and social memory are disclosed in this work. The problem of a correlation between the historical memory and tradition is outlined therein. Determination of the place of a historical memory within historical space still remains disputable. Solution of the problem will give possibility for reconsidering the phenomenon of oblivion and making socio-cultural analysis. Today the outlined issues seem to be especially important on the ground that historical memory has become an object of manipulative practices. Analyzing various approaches to the designated problem the work views history and memory in the context of an individual and social consciousness.