But now that human beings exist, when our perceptual systems and our consciousness interact with the unrepresented, a phenomenal " world " is produced, which is the world of " collective representations ".
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"The quicker they come through a collective representation of their own political interests, the quicker they can move to the international recognized and representative government, which will mark the end of the occupation, " he said.
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The convection diffusion equation is a collective representation of both diffusion and convection equations and describes or explains every physical phenomenon involving the two processes : convection and diffusion in transferring of particles, energy or other physical quantities inside a physical system.
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The " hard problem " of consciousness can be approached fruitfully by beginning with the human group and collective phenomena : community, language, language-based communication, institutional and cultural arrangements, collective representations, self-conceptions, and self-referentiality.
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Collective reflectivity emerges as a function of an organization or group producing and making use of collective representations of the self ( " we ", our group, community, organization, nation ) in its discussions, critical reflections, and decision-making.
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A collective has the capacity in its collective representations and communications about what characterizes it, or what ( and how ) this self perceives, judges, or does, or what it can ( and cannot ) do, or should do ( or should not do ).
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Durkheim's Elementary Forms of Religious Life was key to Alexander's thought, as in this work Durkheim analyzes the ways by which collective representations emerge and function, as well as the role of rituals in maintaining solidarity and reiterating society's norms and values to the congregation.
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Regardless of whether modern societies believe themselves to be rational and secular, their civil life and processes, claims Alexander, are underpinned by collective representations, by strong emotional ties and by various narratives that much like tribal societies tell society what it believes it is and what values it holds sacred.
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Emile Durkheim took a wider view of the social environment ( " milieu social " ), arguing that it contained internalised norms and representations of social forces / social facts : " Our whole social environment seems to be filled with forces which really exist only in our own minds " collective representations.
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In " How Natives Think " ( 1925 ), Lucien L�vy-Bruhl describes a similar notion of mystical, " collective representations . " He too sees magical thinking as fundamentally different from a fallacy, in which people observe that x is followed by y, and conclude that x has caused y.
