In the Beginning: Notes on the Social Construction of Historical Discontinuity

Eviatar Zerubavel

doi:10.1111/j.1475-682X.1993.tb00324.x

In the Beginning: Notes on the Social Construction of Historical Discontinuity

Eviatar Zerubavel

School of Arts and Sciences, Sociology

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Beginnings are both theoretically and experientially anchored in a distinctively discontinuous conception of time. This paper examines the conventional nature of beginnings, calls attention to the politics of establishing official beginnings of historical narratives, and claims that the way groups (from families to nations) construct their historical beginnings ought to be at the heart of any study of the development of collective identity.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	457-459
Number of pages	3
Journal	Sociological Inquiry
Volume	63
Issue number	4
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1475-682X.1993.tb00324.x
State	Published - Oct 1993

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Sociology and Political Science

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