collective memory

collective memory (plural collective memories)

1. (sociology) A shared pool of information held in the memories of multiple members of a group.

   Coordinate term: institutional memory

   • 2001 October 27, Sarah Boxer, “A Memorial Is Itself A Shaper Of Memory”, in The New York Times‎, →ISSN:

     Is it important, or even possible, for people to remember the events of Sept. 11 as they happened? Or is it more important for a society to concentrate on collective memory?

   • 2006 March 5, Holland Cotter, “The Collective Conscious”, in The New York Times‎, →ISSN:

     At the same time it vividly evokes the almost preposterous horror of war itself, which Mr. [Walid] Raad experiences both first hand and from a distance, and has evoked as semifictional collective memory.

   • 2020 February 11, Russell Cobb, “Shifting Collective Memory in Tulsa”, in The New York Times‎, →ISSN:

     The shift in the collective memory is also taking place in local schools, where some teachers still refuse to teach lessons on 1921.