In the frame of everyday knowledge, or lay historiography, an empirical study was carried out with the aim to explore how people with no academic education in history –apart from common obligatory schooling- conceive history, and to identify different conceptions according to religion relevance in life, ideological positioning and nationalism. Convenience sample was used composed by 375 Argentineans (age: M = 34. 05, SD = 13. 00).Mesas temáticas autoconvocadas: Memoria colectiva y representaciones sociales de la historiaFacultad de Psicologí

Barreiro, Alicia

Zubieta, Elena

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LAY HISTORIOGRAPHY AND DIFFERENTIAL POSITIONING: IDEOLOGICAL ORIENTATION, 
NATIONALISM, AND RELIGION RELEVANCE. 
 
Alicia Barreiro & Elena Zubieta. 
avbarreiro@gmail.com 
Facultad de Psicología, UBA –CONICET 
 
Abstract 
Psychology has studied traditionally memories from an individualistic-static memory model 
strengthening the idea of memory accuracy and its evocative power. However, during the last 
third of the last century, memory raise as a constructive activity questioning the accuracy of the 
past in the present update. These changes produced in the studies of memory an increasing 
agreement with the idea of memory as a social activity performed not in private but through the 
social conscience shared with others (Valencia, Momoitio & Idoyaga, 2010).The update of the MC 
studies from the 90s, its insertion into complex functional and intergroup dynamics, become an 
"object" of study with similar characteristics to those posed by the Social Representations Theory 
(SRT) (Haas & Jodelet, 2000). Consequently, memory becomes a key of what is at stake in 
conflicts. In this sense, CM is considered as a set of ‘controversial’ social representations 
(Moscovici, 1988).In the frame of everyday knowledge, or lay historiography, an empirical study 
was carried out with the aim to explore how people with no academic education in history –apart 
from common obligatory schooling- conceive history, and to identify different conceptions 
according to religion relevance in life, ideological positioning and nationalism. Convenience 
sample was used composed by 375 Argentineans (age: M = 34. 05, SD = 13. 00).  The 70% (n = 
264) were female. The 57% (n = 214) were university students from social sciences, the 43% (n = 
72) general population. Confirmatory Factor Analysis exhibit a model of eleven dimensions of 
universal history conceptions: Divine Plan; Laws; Great Men; Microhistory; Truth; Marxist; 
Technology; Progress; Suffering and decline; Cycle and Myth. Marxist and Truth obtain greater 
support, while Divine Plan and Laws are those with lesser consensus. When going further in 
anchoring process through no hierarchical clusters using ideological positioning, nationalism and 
relevance of religion some interesting findings showed up. More right-wing oriented and religious 
moderate participants agree with the conceptions of history as determined by Devine plan, 
objective Laws but also as describing the Progress of the humankind, and to a lesser extent as a 
  
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result of acts of Great men. In contrast, nationalist left agree more with Marxist socio-structural 
conception of history more than other groups. As well as what happen between history records, 
the school, the everyday, and the academic (Rosa, 2004), tension and adjustments are observed 
within lay conceptions when taking into account grouping variables.          
 
Key Words: Memory, Social Representations of History, Consensus, Differential Positioning. 
 


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