The social construction of remembering and forgetting.

Abstract

(and contested) nature(Billig, 1987; De Man, 1979), are our initial (but not necessarily our final) concern. Bartlett’s early work(Bartlett, 1923) will occupy a prominent place in the account below. Although Neisser (1967) saw Bartlett’slater work (Bartlett, 1932) as inaugurating the current ‘cognitive’ revolution in psychology – concerned as it iswith systematic processes – Bartlett’s earlier work is clearly both social constructionist,