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Collective unconscious (k?-lek'tiv un-kon'sh?s) noun
In Jungian psychology, a part of the unconscious mind, shared by a society, a people, or all humankind. The product of ancestral experience, it contains concepts of science, religion, and morality, for example. 1.

To come together in a group or mass; gather. 2 .
Durkheim, Émile (1858-1917), French social theorist, who was one of the pioneers in the development of modern sociology 3.

Assembled or accumulated into a whole. Of, relating to, characteristic of, or made by a. number of people acting as a group: a collective decision 4.
Verb, intransitive

Radcliffe-Brown, A(lfred) R(eginald) (1881-1955), British social anthropologist, born in Birmingham, England. He believed that scientific methods should be applied to the study of a society and its common values, otherwise known as its "collective consciousness. 5.

Collective Conscious, in,
ANTHROPOLOGY
Radcliffe-Brown, A (lfred) R (eginald) Radcliffe-Brown, A(lfred) R(eginald) (1881-1955), British social anthropologist, born in Birmingham, England. He believed that scientific methods should be applied to the study of a society and its common values, otherwise known as its "collective consciousness." Radcliffe-Brown did much of his early work among traditional peoples. His first book, The Andaman Islanders, was published in 1922. He described his later studies of the aborigines of Australia in the work The Social Organization of Australian Tribes (1931).6.

CULTURE
It is important to note that multiculturalism does not share the postmodernist stance. Its passions are political; its assumptions empirical; its conception of identities visceral. For it, there is no doubting that history is something that happened and that those happenings have left their mark within our collective consciousness. History for multiculturalists is not a succession of dissolving texts, but a tense tangle of past actions that have reshaped the landscape, distributed the nation's wealth, established boundaries, engendered prejudices, and unleashed energies.

Joyce Appleby (b. 1929), U.S. historian. "Recovering America's Historic Diversity, "Journal of American History, p. 430 (September 1992).7.

RELIGION
Culture's essential service to a religion is to destroy intellectual idolatry, the recurrent tendency in religion to replace the object of its worship with its present understanding and forms of approach to that object.

Northrop Frye (1912-91), Canadian literary critic. Anatomy of Criticism, Second Essay, "Anagogic Phase: Symbol as Monad" (1957). 8.

1 Excerpted from The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, Third Edition Copyright (c) 1992 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Electronic version licensed from Lernout & Hauspie Speech Products N.V., further reproduction and distribution restricted in accordance with the Copyright Law of the United States. All rights reserved.

2 Excerpted from The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, Third Edition Copyright (c) 1992 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Electronic version licensed from Lernout & Hauspie Speech Products N.V., further reproduction and distribution restricted in accordance with the Copyright Law of the United States. All rights reserved.

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4 Excerpted from The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, Third Edition Copyright (c) 1992 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Electronic version licensed from Lernout & Hauspie Speech Products N.V., further reproduction and distribution restricted in accordance with the Copyright Law of the United States. All rights reserved.
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6 Excerpted from The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, Third Edition Copyright (c) 1992 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Electronic version licensed from Lernout & Hauspie Speech Products N.V., further reproduction and distribution restricted in accordance with the Copyright Law of the United States. All rights reserved.
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