On the other hand, however, they serve effectively as barometers in the hands of popular culturists at measuring, even predicting collective sentiments and cultural trends and anxieties.
While cultural theory elitists have tended to write off familiar monsters as little more than cheap fads of mass culture, popular culturists often embrace them as effective barometers capable of measuring and, at times, even predicting collective sentiments and anxieties.
Their collective sentiments of fear and greed could drive more wild swings in the months to come.
Their collective sentiments of fear and greed could drive more wild swings in months to come (see story, p. 180).
By that, I mean the collective sentiments created by worldwide instability, terrorism, inflation fears and potentially pandemic diseases.
Building on this distinction, this paper terms the self dimension of justification 'aesthetic justification' (based on personal gratification) and the social dimension of justification 'moral justification' (the 'socialness' of taste, folding in questions of civility, collective sentiments and techniques of fashioning the self).
But current uproars are the result of police performing a contradictory function: sharply dividing collective sentiments through their handling of recent cases.
Coined by social philosopher Louis Althusser, police are a necessary Restrictive State Apparatus (RSA) to maintain order by reinforcing collective sentiments and cultural cohesion.
This sentiment changes the hex bug swarm behavior, animating collective sentiment about #protest.
Several recent works support this theory by providing evidence of correlation between stock market prices and collective sentiment indexes measured using social media data.
Historically this religious "survival of the fittest" encouraged some clerics to align their judgments with the prevailing collective sentiment.
