Socio-historical amnesia in Ukraine: to statement of the problem

Abstract

The article is dedicated to the problem of social memory and social amnesia, represented in socio-cultural phenomena of the Ukrainian society. The specificity of social memory’s functioning has been studied with the use of a systematic approach. Social amnesia is presented in the form of operations, which are included into the integral system network of the reproduction of social oblivion. On the basis of specific examples, theoretical and sociological analysis of the structural and organizational complex of memorial subjects and objects, which are the components of such social institutions: religion, education, government, family, has been conducted. Within the frame of socio-system analysis, the value of social memory defects in the structure of social reality has been determined. The mechanism of the socio-historical amnesia’s construction has been schematically set out as well as the resulting from it tendency to mythologizing/hallucination has been described. The social amnesia is the social script and the characteristic, which forms mentality. The influence of social and historical amnesia in the process of perception of social time has been estimated, a schematic representation of the model of time distortion has been represented. The non-actualization of the experience in this model determines the formation of the imaginable social reality.

Keywords

• соціальна пам’ять
• соціально-історична амнезія
• ідентичність
• самореференція
• рефлексія
• імагінальність
• спотворення часу
• системний аналіз