SOCIAL FRAMES OF MEMORY - AN ECOLOGICAL P ERSPECTIVE

The traditional approaches to the study of memory were focused to find the general principles on how memory operates. In recent years has be en increasing interest in the research of memory in its natural contex ts the ecological memory. A statement of the ecological directions for memory research is presented here, emphasizing the orientations histo rical and collective (Halbwachs, Blondel, Bartlett). Two dimensions ar e direction of ecological orientation. One dimension is that the actor of remembering (individual vs. collective) and other that the ecologi cal (natural context vs artificial context).