Functional potential of memorial culture
The article is devoted to understanding the phenomenon of memorial culture and its functional potential. Memorial culture is understood as a set of sustainable, reproducible ways of knowing, interpreting, describing, preserving, broadcasting the past, represented in various forms of public and private memorial activities. The functions common to memorial culture as a whole include the following: 1) identification (definition of value, ideological and other grounds for self-determination of group members on the basis of a common system of interpretation of the past); 2) integration (consolidation of group members in the process of sending memorialization acts); 3) ethical (transfer of value-normative attitudes developed by the group to its members; moral “working through” of the past, collective experience of traumatic events of the past); 4) the function of ritualization (providing conditions for general commemorative activity and the implementation of this activity); 5) stabilization (leveling of temporal gaps between past and present); 6) manipulative (use of the past as an instrument of social regulation); 7) humanistic (creating conditions for the emotional release of participants in memorial actions, such as sorrow, nostalgia, pride, etc.). The functions of memorial culture are by no means always exclusively positive and constructive. Memorial culture can not only contribute to social consolidation, but also divide society, establish different rules and opportunities for remembrance for its different parts.