Social memory, social creativity and collective subjectivity

Bibliographic Data

ID3067331
AuthorsJ M Domingues (0000-0001-9729-9528, corresponding author)
Year1997
Volume36
Issue3
Pages469-492
Publication date1997-09-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueSocial Science Information (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0539-0184 • E-ISSN: 1461-7412
PublisherSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/053901897036003004
OpenAlexW2127565680
LanguageEN
Citations received4
References cited22

Social memory and social creativity are the two processes whereby social systems are reproduced and change without teleology. Social memory, with its ideal features but also its material embodiments, must have the collective dimension brought out, without detriment to the shifting and personalized ways with which individuals deal with it. It provides the patterns for the structuring of social life in the hermeneutic-cognitive and in the material, as well as in the space-time dimension. Social creativity is responsible for the introduction of innovations in daily life and in history. Creativity is to a great extent rooted in the fluid unconscious of individuals, but demands rational thinking to achieve greater impact upon social life. Immersed in undetermined social interactions, individual action is mediated by variably (de)centred collective subjectivities that possess a specific property, namely collective causality. Social creativity thus develops in both the individual and the collective dimensions

Collective action · Collective memory · Creativity · Epistemology · Political science · Politics · Social change · Social entropy · Social inertia · Social philosophy · Social relation · Sociology · Subjectivity · Teleology · Creativity in Education and Neuroscience · Critical Realism in Sociology · Psychology · Social Psychology · Social Representations and Identity