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Identity between Memory and Narrative: A Sociological Analysis
Mlynář, Jakub ; Šubrt, Jiří (advisor) ; Váně, Jan (referee) ; Kvasničková, Adéla (referee)
Identity between Memory and Narrative: A Sociological Analysis Abstract of PhD thesis Mgr. Jakub Mlynář Department of Sociology, Faculty of Arts, Charles University in Prague 2016 Concepts of identity, memory and narrative are being sociologically employed, whether separately or in combination, but most often in relationship to specific research areas. The aim of my thesis is an explanation of mutual relationship of identity, memory and narrative as well as their meanings in social action. I am taking into account the controversial features of these phenomena, which have been recently discussed, and I offer a compromise theoretical solution. Mutual relationship of identity, memory and narrative are followed in detailed case-study, analysing a selection of oral history interviews from USC Shoah Foundation's Visual History Archive, with an inspiration from narrative analysis and membership categorization analysis. The oral history interview is a social situation, in which the general interactional mechanisms related to memory, identity and narrative stand out in focused shape. Narrative expression of identities in life stories of Holocaust survivors is mainly related to the categories of national, state, political and religious identity, reflected explicitly and implicitly during the interviews. Specific...
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