Earlier sociologists paid considerable attention to the religious, moral and collective sentiments of societies, but recently this has not been brought into models of society as fully as it once was.

"MY God," Luger said, reflecting the collective sentiment.

Let impotence in the face of suffering become a collective sentiment, and the demand for suffering and death can sweep a whole community.

The collective sentiment in the industry," Mr. Kraushaar said, "is still hopefulness that we're near the cusp of an upturn.

A key player in inter-group relations and conflict is the collective sentiment a person's own group (in-group) feels toward another group (out-group).

It was a collective sentiment from the adults.

Traumatic events witnessed by an entire society can stir up collective sentiment, often resulting in a shift in that society's culture and mass actions.

At the bottom we transform in bronze our collective sentiment".

But as collective sentiments change, it is 'human criminality', comprising only offences against other people, which shocks collective sentiments and attracts a punitive response.

The most important determining social force to Durkheim was collective sentiments, and especially religion - a factor which some would describe as 'cultural' and Marxists tend to characterize as 'ideological'.