STUDY OF HISTORICAL MEMORY OF ARMENIAN SOCIETY

The article analyzes the nationwide sociological research, devoted to the study of the social memory of modern Armenian society. Despite some incompleteness, the social memory has an ability to retain in the collective consciousness the main historical narratives, which are so necessary for the construction of national identity. The conducted sociological research made it possible to reveal the features of the historical consciousness of the modern Armenian society, its depth and structure, as well as collective ideas about the key events of history, accumulated in the aggregate historical memory of the various social groups.