SOCI 2750 Monuments, Collective Memory, and the Sociology of Remembrance

SOCI 2750 Monuments, Collective Memory, and the Sociology of Remembrance
Monuments, Collective Memory, and the Sociology of Remembrance
Summer only course. A sociological exploration of collective memory and commemoration that seeks to address the following questions: What do nations (and other social groups) remember, acknowledge, commemorate, ignore, contest, and deny about the past? How and why do we decide to remember certain things and not others? Which past and whose past do we remember? How do we represent these memories? How does collective memory differ from individual memory? What is the relationship of the remembered past to the present and intended future?
credit hours: 3