Skip to main content

Search from vocabulary

Content language

Concept information

Preferred term

collective emotions  

Definition

  • Among social phenomena that raise important philosophical as well as social-scientific issues is the phenomenon of collective emotions. The main purpose of this entry is to present a classification of collective emotional phenomena in terms of their degree or level of collectivity, using existing theoretical concepts of collective emotions as examples of different types of collective emotions. [Source: Encyclopedia of Philosophy and the Social Sciences; Collective Emotions]

Belongs to group

URI

https://concepts.sagepub.com/social-science/concept/collective_emotions

Download this concept: