The Study On The Archives’ Role In Social Memory Construction

Nowadays, driven by the reform and open and economic development, our country presents with each passing day, and more prosperous situation. However, with the urban redevelopment and the westernized concept of people, many memory heritages are quietly aging, damaged and disappeared. The top priority of socialist harmonious culture construction is how to protect these memory heritages in order to enhance the sense of root, national identity feeling, and identification of our descendants. Archives, as an important support to the construction of the memory, granted to play their part fully, by means of the family archives, Urban construction archives, oral archives, and intangible cultural heritage archives collection work go deep into and such as "urban memory project" and "world memory project" carry out, excavate the superiority of archives in the construction of memory, expand the function of archives, promote the image and status of archives in the whole society, promote consciousness of archives as well as social consciousness of archives, change the situation of archives and users unfamiliar with each other, this is the starting point of the archives work. Therefore, this thesis put the different social memory construction values of archives in-depth analysis, and put forward the approaches to the role which archives plays in the social memory construction, in order to get the win-win situation between archives and construction of social memory. This thesis is divided as five parts:The first part, for the introduction section, combining the research results of previous existing, summarize the research of and memory at home and abroad. Get a explicit cognition of the concept of archives memory through current research between academic and social, summarizes the domestic research results, and draw lessons from foreign research experience, conduce to play the role of memory construction of archives, and social control function for a harmonious socialist society and even give service to the whole country construction stability and prosperity.The second part presents the concept of social memory, social memory is a very broad concept, in different regional scope, given time, and due to the various factors of the natural environment, society system, history and culture, the political economy work together to make the people of special social cultural environment produce different social memory, Thus it expresses the comprehensive relationship between "people" and "social", it is which our starting point of understanding of the concept of social memory. There is fuzzy mess cognition though the related concepts of the current social memory, so this chapter comb the related concepts of social memory such as memory, the collective memory, social memory, comparative analysis the different perspective on social memory between Maurice Halbwachs, Paul Connerton and Jan Assmann, and detailed interpretation the form of social memory:the subject, object and intermediary of social memory.The third part, discusses the relationship between the archives and social memory construction. Archives are the way and the method to accumulate social memory; Archives are intermediary and carrier to the construction of the social memory; Archives are tools to maintain social stability and control the social order. Archives are the first-hand materials to origin memorial which is generated directly in the social practice; it is real, continuous, extensive social memory itself, which embodies the history of the good cultural achievements. Archives are intermediaries and carriers of social memory; it is the link of past, nowadays and the future, have important social memory.The fourth part, this paper expounds the memory function of archives and its prolongation. There is close association between Social memory and history. Because of social memory passed on the preservation of human social history practical experience, the traditional culture of inheritance and social civilization stretches of progress and development. Archives plays a very important social function in the construction and recovery of personal memories, social memory, the collective memory and cultural memory etc, the archives has many functions to social memory such as inheritance, confirmed, carry forward and image display etc. Through the archives, people can store knowledge and information in social practice, extend and pass it on across space and time limit. File, as the original recording of historical activities, as a kind of evidence of the activities, can prove events and facts happened in the historical society. In this option and discarded, strengthen and desalination, we wake up part of the historical memory, selectively shapes our social memory to get approval and cohesion. Through the related files can trigger to scatter our past, can take us back to the years, and enhance the time feeling. In addition, the archives also have expanding functions as the concept repair and cultural education.The fifth part, reflected the practical significance. At First introduces several new records—family archives, City Construction Archives, oral archives and intangible cultural heritage archives and the important role in civilian memory construction, environmental context continue, The Chinese Context continue. In front of the paper is focused on the ways of how the archives play the roles in the construction of social memory work. Specific include "memory engineering" as the means, and on the basis of consolidate the traditional archives, strengthen Archival Compilation, strengthen the propaganda, exhibition work, develop and utilize genealogy archives, develop new ways, and develop archives culture industry. Use archives for social control, provide the original basis for our social credit system construction; Carry forward the excellent person and deeds of archives, boost national pride and cohesion; excavate resources of archives and cultural, inherit social memory, and promote the harmonious culture constructionThe development and utilization of the value of archives construction begin with archives produced, the society has also given a full affirmation on the role of the construction of memory, but in dealing with the series of new problems of memory construction, people cannot turn their attentions to archives at express speed. With the deepening of the archives work, archives can work increasingly linked between life and people, become the memory and culture and leisure products which is closely related to livelihood of people, archives and archives work can play an important role in social memory construction, participate in memory engineering with a brand new look and a positive attitude.