Social Memory as Stratification and Folding

Abstract

For Tarde, memory as well as habit are the outcome of repetition. Add to this that, in its social dimension, repetition is another name for imitation. Any sort of social similarity, Tarde claims, cannot but ultimately derive from imitative processes, that is, through individual assimilation of either voluntary or forced repetition.

Keywords

• Stratifications, Folds, De-stratifications
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