Historical knowledge, importance, social identity, and memory accessibility for World War I Armistice: Comparing French- and German-speaking Belgians

IF 1.4 2区心理学 Q1 CULTURAL STUDIES

Memory Studies Pub Date : 2024-04-25 DOI:10.1177/17506980241247262

Christin Camia, Jelena Scheider, Olivier Luminet

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Abstract

Conflictual relations between language groups make Belgium a fruitful ground to study the interplay between historical knowledge, importance, collective memory and social identity related to historical events. This study compared German-speaking and French-speaking Belgians on the these dimensions for a historical event for which contrasted responses were expected, the centenary of Armistice on 11 November 2018. We also focused on generational differences by comparing senior, intermediate, and junior age cohorts. Results showed no generational differences but revealed that German-speakers construct their social identity differently than French-speakers. Namely, German-speaking Belgians integrated political with non-political events in their collective memory and relied more on school as source of knowledge and nationally relevant memories. In contrast, French-speaking Belgians relied on family and friends as source of knowledge, intertwined more personally and nationally relevant memories, and showed a strong association of national identity with the importance attributed to World War I.

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第一次世界大战停战的历史知识、重要性、社会认同和记忆可及性：比较讲法语和德语的比利时人

语言群体之间的冲突关系使比利时成为研究与历史事件相关的历史知识、重要性、集体记忆和社会认同之间相互作用的富饶之地。本研究比较了德语比利时人和法语比利时人对 2018 年 11 月 11 日停战 100 周年这一历史事件在这些维度上的反应。我们还通过比较高龄、中龄和低龄群体来关注代际差异。结果显示没有代际差异，但发现德语使用者与法语使用者在构建社会身份时有所不同。也就是说，讲德语的比利时人在集体记忆中将政治事件与非政治事件结合起来，并更多地依赖学校作为知识来源和与国家相关的记忆。与此相反，讲法语的比利时人以家人和朋友为知识来源，将更多个人记忆和与国家相关的记忆交织在一起，并将国家认同与对第一次世界大战的重视紧密联系在一起。

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期刊介绍： Memory Studies is an international peer reviewed journal. Memory Studies affords recognition, form, and direction to work in this nascent field, and provides a critical forum for dialogue and debate on the theoretical, empirical, and methodological issues central to a collaborative understanding of memory today. Memory Studies examines the social, cultural, cognitive, political and technological shifts affecting how, what and why individuals, groups and societies remember, and forget. The journal responds to and seeks to shape public and academic discourse on the nature, manipulation, and contestation of memory in the contemporary era.