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It was collective imagining with a shared narrative.
When you get into a conflict, the first thing that goes is shared narrative.
"Groups seek to develop a shared narrative as an explanation for what is happening," Vedantam writes.
"'Grace Engine' was really about trying to create a sense of shared narrative over time," she said.
[We thought] let's take the one event – Bloody Sunday – for which there is definitely no shared narrative.
Is there a shared narrative of the English past that functions even as a useful collective invention?
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Yet it's a fallacy of "cultural literacy" to equate shared narratives with shared meanings.
Social groups seek to negotiate shared narratives that are simple, appealing and reinforce shared values.
Two forces, one driven by bottom-line educators answering to corporate demands to phase out the liberal arts, the other coming from the circular firing squad of academics who loathe popular histories, have done much to marginalize our shared narratives.
The results suggest that the observed patterns of narratives have evolved into shared narratives or scripts of suspicion, and that these patterns are specific to suspect race and neighborhood factors.
On a larger scale, shared narratives bring people together to accomplish what seems impossible.
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