The social psychology of experience :

Middleton, David

The social psychology of experience : studies in remembering and forgetting / David Middleton and Steven D. Brown. - London ; Thousand Oaks, Calif. : SAGE, 2005. - xi, 252 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [234]-244) and index.

One; Introducing remembering and forgetting in the social psychology of experience
Two; Making experience matter; memory in the social sciences
Three; Territorialising experience; Maurice Halbwachs on memory
Four; Virtualising experience; Henri Bergson on memory
Five; Communicating experience; interactional organisation of remembering and forgetting
Six; Projecting experience; succession and change in communicative action
Seven; Localising experience; implacement; incorporation and habit in zones of personal relations
Eight; Objectifying experience; mediating; displacing and stabilising the past in objects
Nine; Technologising experience; infrastructures in remembering and forgetting
Ten; Collecting and dispersing experience; spatialising the individual in the mass
Eleven; Cutting experience; intersecting durations in making lives matter
Twelve; Unlimiting experience; dynamics of remembering and forgetting


This book presents a new and fascinating insight into the social psychology of experience drawing upon a number of classic works (particularly by Frederick Bartlett, Maurice Halbwachs & Henri Bergson). The authors illustrate their ideas with material from studies focused on settings at home and at work, in public and commercial organization, involving language and text based communication, objects and place.

0803977565 (cased) 0803977573 (pbk.)


Memory
Social psychology.
Experience--Social aspects.--Psychological aspects.

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