Generational Memory Schemata of the Iran-Iraq War

Document Type : Research Paper

Authors

1 Ph.D in Sociology at University of Mazandaran (Corresponding Author)

2 Associate Professor of Sociology, Departmet of Social Sciences, University of Mazandaran

Abstract

The generational memory of
the Iran-Iraq war is meant to be the memory shared by those whose collective
experience of war has shaped their views in the same period of history. The
fundamental fact of generational memory is that different generations interpret
and remember past events in varied ways. Thus, the incident as effective as the
Iran-Iraq war can act as a focal point in the reproduction of collective
representations of the past, and in the present conditions of the society can
configure the mentality of the generation around the understanding and common
sense of war. For a conceptualization of generational memory of war, after an
overview of individualistic and collectivist models of collective memory and
the expression of deficiency in their methodological strategies, a new model of
cognitive sociology was used to examine the mechanisms of generational memory’s
production. In this model, collective memory as a knowledge structures and in
the form of memory schemata which exists at a supra-individual level of social
life, is cognitive by-product of the social interaction of culturally related
individuals with each other amongcultural objects. The dominant methodology of research has been qualitative
method, the technique of deep and semi-structured interview has been used for
data collection, and the method of thematic analysis was used for data
analysis. The application of the analysis method allowed us to obtain a
typology of common knowledge structures that individuals in each group
generation can use to understand the meaning of events and phenomena associated
with warfare. These common knowledge structures, as generational memory
schemata of the war indicate that how two generations with autobiographical and
historical memories of war represent the Iran-Iraq war.

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Journal of Culture-Communication Studies
Volume 18, Issue 40 - Serial Number 72
96
March 2018
Pages 123-155

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