“Paul DiMaggio (1997) has looked at the interaction between cognition and social life. He notes that under everyday circumstances, people organize information via automatic cognition, using "culturally available schemata - knowledge structures that represent objects of events and provide default… — Wendy Griswold Copy Share Image
“He (Zerubavel) draws attention to the social influences on perception (what people notice), attention and concern (what people care about), classification (how people categorize things, meanings, memories - what to remember, what to forget, how to feel about it), and time (how people place things in the past or future). For example, many African Americans regard slavery as a relatively… — Wendy Griswold Copy Share
“We known the past - and shape our schemas about it - through memory, history, and relics but also through imagination. With such aids, memory organizes consciousness, transforming welter of actual experience into desirable or meaningful events, and these become institutionalized as history. 'Just as memory validates personal identity, history perpetuates collective self-awareness'.” — Wendy Griswold Copy Share
“Recall Clifford Geertz definition of culture: "an historically transmitted pattern of meanings embodied in symbols, a system of inherited conceptions expressed in symbolic forms… — Wendy Griswold Copy Share Image
“History is complex, with levels of detail; it must be taught and may not be known by all members of the group. Collective memory, on the other hand, is known by definition, for it is an account of the past shared by a group. Often such memories are perpetuated orally, informally, and sometimes secretly if the memory goes against the… — Wendy Griswold Copy Share
“...printing and the proliferation of written materials allowed ordinary people to be members of any number of relational communities.” — Wendy Griswold Copy Share Image
“Many live where they must, not where they choose, yet still endeavor to form lifestyle enclaves to whatever degree they are able. Simlarly, people… — Wendy Griswold Copy Share Image
“Identities are the key to political thought and action. IF cultural creators can frame their message so it resonates with a frame that the… — Wendy Griswold Copy Share Image
“Two intellectual consequences of literacy were the separation of history from myth and the increased individualism based on highly specialized knowledge. In literate cultures,… — Wendy Griswold Copy Share Image
“Paul DiMaggio (1997) has looked at the interaction between cognition and social life. He notes that under everyday circumstances, people organize information via automatic… — Wendy Griswold Copy Share Image
“We have seen some of the mechanisms whereby culture serves the interests of power, including making something legitimate, moral, or common sense. One of… — Wendy Griswold Copy Share Image
“Power holders as well as seekers of power work to legitimate their chosen frames through rituals and symbols. We saw earlier that this is… — Wendy Griswold Copy Share Image
“Charles Cooley (1956) wrote that primary groups, those groups such as the family and neighborhood where we have our earliest and most intimate interactions,… — Wendy Griswold Copy Share Image
