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Record Nr.

UNINA9910821140903321

Autore

Middleton David (David J.)

Titolo

The social psychology of experience : studies in remembering and forgetting / / David Middleton and Steven D. Brown

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; Thousand Oaks, Calif., : SAGE, 2005

ISBN

9786611251475

9781446221808

1446221806

9781446232866

1446232867

9781281251473

128125147X

9781847877024

1847877028

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xi, 252 p.)

Collana

Inquiries in social construction

Altri autori (Persone)

BrownSteven D., Dr.

Disciplina

153

Soggetti

Memory - Social aspects

Social psychology

Experience - Psychological aspects

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

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

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Contents; 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: emplacement, incorporation and habit in zones of personal relations

Eight: Objectifying experience: mediating, displacing and stabilizing 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; References; Index

Sommario/riassunto

The authors present an insight into the social psychology of experience drawing upon a few classic works to help develop their argument. The signficance of their ideas for developing a contemporary psychology of experience is illustrated with material from studies focused on setting at home and at work.