Nature and Socio-Cultural Practices of Social Amnesia in Russian Society

Sergey Dyuzhikov Alexandrovich,Rashid Dumalichevich Hunagov,Magomedgabib Gasanhanovich Magomedov,Aues Mukhamedovich Kumykov

doi:10.5901/mjss.2015.v6n3s3p31

Sergey Dyuzhikov Alexandrovich, Rashid Dumalichevich Hunagov + Show 2 more

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Abstract

The purpose of this article is to identify means of social and philosophical analysis of nature and trajectory of in reception of practices for manifestations of social amnesia. The phenomenon of social amnesia is ontologically inscribed in social reality and is particularly pronounced in periods of social and cultural crisis. It is reason why configuration of manifestations of social memory in characteristics of national historical process becomes cyclically-wave in nature, when periodically lost contents of memory can go back to history in processed form, responding to requests of era and political class. As memory serves as the guardian of past and a repository of information about past, story, which reveals memory loss, is associated with it or with nostalgia for past. As a result, social memory, having functional and structural-informative features, includes not only processes of remembering, but of forgetting, and nature and trajectory of reception of in contemporary socio-cultural practices, constituting that essence of social amnesia is peculiar for deformed character. DOI: 10.5901/mjss.2015.v6n3s3p31

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Russian society is living through one of the most difficult periods in its long history of solving problems overcoming the legacy of totalitarian authoritarian mode of social life through the transformation and modernization
History being event-driven in time and space is always closely associated with such changes, transforming modern intellectual "field" of social and philosophical reflection and providers, in turn, has significant impact on the formation of a variety of subjects of socio-cultural transformations practices
Theoretical and methodological framework research are the ideas presented in the works by Russian and foreign authors, having their works in socio-philosophical and sociological areas devoted to the study of various aspects of the phenomenon of social amnesia in relation to the socio-cultural changes

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Russian society is living through one of the most difficult periods in its long history of solving problems overcoming the legacy of totalitarian authoritarian mode of social life through the transformation and modernization. Reflexive and critical potential "questioning" about the experience of the past constantly feeds the actual socio-philosophical discourse, and update of the concept sphere occurs during the transition period, characterized by the unstable society. History being event-driven in time and space is always closely associated with such changes, transforming modern intellectual "field" of social and philosophical reflection and providers, in turn, has significant impact on the formation of a variety of subjects of socio-cultural transformations practices. The acceleration of change and social upheaval in the context of collective memory and historical experience, the strain of social memory, blur, uncertainty and fragmentation of life in the postmodern world are forcing people to remember the past

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