Memory as social capital - subject outline
Memory as social capital - subject outline

Summary/Abstract: The category of social capital is valuable concept in the diagnosis of a specificity of local environment as a meeting place of various social groups and in consolidating socialnetwork. The aim of this article is to indicate that it is worth extending a framework of social capitalincluding a memory. The social capital can not be created nor multiply without relations to theheritage of past generations, the knowledge about the past and its falseness. A consolidation of thememory of an individual and a group is a fundamental issue after a totalitarian period. A memorycan divide, but also enable to mutual understanding on various levels of social structure. A restorationof a memory on behalf of values and ideals can bring a resurgence of pro-social attitudes,a requirement of revitalization a local communities, promotes a trust. It should be effective ineducation indicating a value of developing and supporting social relations, formal and non-formal,through getting to know a bygone collective experiences. Social capital should profit from the pastsources and valuable indications without a close future perspective. The consequence is a revisedknowledge about a human being, deepening reflection of the contemporaneousness. A traditionalsocial space is losing positive aspects of place, which people understand, for that reason we shouldask ourselves the questions about education of young generations, so that new truths implementedin the fast changing world will not sentence a social capital to a total erosion.

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