Identification of social networks for the construction of local historical memory

Abstract

The purpose of this paper is to present the preliminary results of the research project: Social networks as a methodological model for the construction of the meanings of local historical memory: Chinandega 1960/2020, associated with the first objective, which it implied: identifying the nodes of social networks to be integrated, discuss the theoretical and legal elements of support for it, the selection of the informants required for its realization, as well as being able to determine the methodology and dynamics of the functioning of the social network organized to develop the study. In the methodological part, a territorial social network was identified and configured, which allowed establishing the territorial nodes, relying on the technique of observing the communities that make up the municipality, likewise the components that make it up were identified; The results that are presented correspond to the first specific objective of the investigation, they are related to the identification of the social network that will serve as support, for the construction of the historical memory of the municipality of Chinandega. The configuration process of this social network from the definition of thirteen territorial social network nodes, The design for the construction of the historical memory of a locality based on social networks, from the conceptions, techniques and instruments of various methods: history regional and local, historical memory, oral history and documentary review, which are combined to recover the memories of a society of a period settled in a territory of a regional or local scope.