Editing Collective memory (section)

{{Short description|Shared knowledge and values of a social group}}
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'''Collective memory''' is the shared pool of memories, knowledge and information of a [[social group]] that is significantly associated with the group's identity.<ref name=":0" /><ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Fq8R3G-0t9gC&q=info:IPRb9NF4xF8J:scholar.google.com&pg=PR5|title=The Collective Memory Reader|last1=Olick|first1=Jeffrey K.|last2=Vinitzky-Seroussi|first2=Vered|last3=Levy|first3=Daniel|date=2011|publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=978-0-19-533741-9}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal|last1=Hirst|first1=William|last2=Manier|first2=David|date=April 2008|title=Towards a psychology of collective memory|journal=Memory (Hove, England)|volume=16|issue=3|pages=183–200|doi=10.1080/09658210701811912|issn=0965-8211|pmid=18324546|s2cid=21091246}}</ref> The English phrase "collective memory" and the equivalent French phrase "la mémoire collective" appeared in the second half of the nineteenth century. The philosopher and sociologist [[Maurice Halbwachs]] analyzed and advanced the concept of the collective memory in the book ''Les cadres sociaux de la mémoire'' (1925).<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=agfHmAEACAAJ|title=Les cadres sociaux de la mémoire|last=Halbwachs|first=Maurice|date=1925|publisher=Librairie Félix Alcan|location=Paris|language=fr}}</ref> 

Collective memory can be constructed, shared, and passed on by large and small social groups. Examples of these groups can include nations, generations, communities, among others.<ref name=":0">{{Cite journal|last1=Roediger|first1=Henry L.|last2=Abel|first2=Magdalena|date=July 2015|title=Collective memory: a new arena of cognitive study|journal=Trends in Cognitive Sciences|volume=19|issue=7|pages=359–361|doi=10.1016/j.tics.2015.04.003|issn=1879-307X|pmid=25953047|s2cid=16554192}}</ref> 

Collective memory has been a topic of interest and research across a number of disciplines, including [[psychology]], [[sociology]], [[history]], [[Philosophy of mind|philosophy]], and [[anthropology]].<ref>{{Cite journal|last1=Roediger|first1=Henry L.|last2=Wertsch|first2=James V.|date=January 2008|title=Creating a new discipline of memory studies|journal=Memory Studies|volume=1|issue=1|pages=9–22|doi=10.1177/1750698007083884|s2cid=28173588|issn=1750-6980}}</ref>