title: On the Typology of Social Amnesia
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metadata.value: Potseluev, Sergey P.
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metadata.value: 2023-10-09T20:10:52Z
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metadata.value: 2023-09
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metadata.value: Potseluev S. P. On the Typology of Social Amnesia. Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. Philosophy and Conflict Studies, 2023, vol. 39, issue 3, pp. 557–568. https://doi.org/10.21638/spbu17.2023.312 (In Russian)
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metadata.value: https://doi.org/10.21638/spbu17.2023.312
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metadata.value: http://hdl.handle.net/11701/44161
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metadata.value: The purpose of the article is to clarify the concept of social amnesia, which often does not differ
  in modern research works from other manifestations of social forgetfulness. The author offers
  a general typology of this phenomenon, based on the conceptual distinctions introduced
  by T. Parsons and D. Easton. These refer to the difference between a social system and an actor,
  on the one hand, and the difference between a social group and grouping, on the other.
  Accordingly, the author identifies three types of social amnesia: systemic, structural, and actor
  one. The article draws attention to the difficulties of conceptualizing actor and structural
  amnesia, since they are often mixed with organized (prescribed) oblivion or the pragmatics
  of forgetting, complementing the process of memorization. To clarify these points, the author
  turns to the experience of studying the amnesic effects generated by the totalitarian organization
  of oblivion. To this end, the article analyzes the understanding of totalitarian amnesia
  in the artistic images of George Orwell, as well as in the concepts of Hannah Arendt that are
  consonant with them. The author emphasizes that the totalitarian “neuro-linguistic politics of
  memory” gives rise to amnesic effects regarding the past primarily in its living witnesses, and
  not only in future generations. Further, the author clarifies the concept of structural amnesia,
  which has received a contradictory interpretation in modern social sciences and humanities.
  In this regard, the article discusses the significant role of structural amnesia in the destruction
  but also in the formation of social identities. Based on the cases presented in the scientific
  studies to this topic, the author raises the question of the specifics of structural amnesia as
  an effect of social modernization and high mobility in the formation of national identities at
  micro- and macro-level.
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metadata.value: ru
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metadata.name: dc.publisher
metadata.value: St Petersburg State University
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metadata.value: Vestnik of St Petersburg University. Philosophy and Conflict Studies;Volume 39; Issue 3
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: systemic amnesia
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: structural amnesia
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: actor amnesia
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: social forgetfulness
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metadata.value: organized oblivion
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: social identities
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: social mobility
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metadata.value: On the Typology of Social Amnesia
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