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There are several places to start with social memory theory. Full disclosure, I'm all aboard the memory approach and their critiques on the criteria approach.

Here's a few places to start:

• Alan Kirk, "Social and Cultural Memory," in Memory, Tradition, and Text, Semeia Studies 52, 1-14.
  
  
• Alan Kirk and Tom Thatcher, "Christian Origins: Historical Truth and Social Memory,"in Memory, Tradition, and Text, Semeia Studies 52, 25-42.
  
  
• Chris Keith, "Social Memory Theory and Gospels Research: The First Decade (Parts One and Two), Early Christianity vol 6 (2) 2015.
  
  
• Chris Keith and Anthony le Donne, eds., Jesus, Criteria, and the Demise of Authenticity
  
  
• Fentress and Wickhan, Social Memory
  
  
• Maurice Halbwachs, On Collective Memory (There's a PDF of this work floating around on the internet.)
  
  
• James Dunn, Jesus Remembered
  
  
• Bart Ehrman, Jesus Before the Gospels (But see Rafael Rodriguez's serial review at The Jesus Blog)
  
  That should be enough to get started. I think the Kirk and Thatcher article and Keith's articles are a good place to start with summaries of the positions within social memory research into the Gospels.