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A Review Of Eviatar Zerubavel's 'Social Memories'

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Social Construction is an invention of a certain society, which only exist because people agree to act as if it exists. Then you must ask how the self is a social construction? And why is it important to realize this? In Social Memories, Eviatar Zerubavel explains that impersonal memories play a huge role in relationships just as much as we speak volumes about cultural identity and the politics of collective memory. Also, in what is the self? Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi express that the self is a reification and to create inner order and clarity in the owner’s conception of self. Membership in society or cultures is so important in allowing us to develop a sense of self because the influence of the membership can shape the self in several different

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