Social amnesia, or collective amnesia, is the act of collectively forgetting things or failing to perform due to shared forgetfulness. The concept is often cited in relation to the 1970s scholarship of Russell Jacoby, and can result from the forcible repression of memories, from ignorance, from changing circumstances, or simply from the forgetting that comes with changing interests; protest, folklore, local memory and collective nostalgia are described as counter forces that combat it.
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Core ClaimSocial amnesia is the act of collectively forgetting things or failing to perform due to shared forgetfulness. 1 Classification
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1. Social amnesia (Wikipedia)
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Social amnesia, or collective amnesia, is the act of collectively forgetting things or failing to perform due to shared forgetfulness.
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, social amnesia has been said to reflect "the tendency of American penology to ignore history and precedent when responding to the present or informing the future.
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