In recent weeks, the term 'collective effervescence' has gone viral on social media, with people excitedly posting videos at public events like parades, fairs, concerts and other community events, ...

Have you ever felt chills ripple through your body as a stadium erupts in cheers, cried while singing along with strangers at a concert or been swept up in the energy of a protest? There’s an electric ...

It also helps to make noise and move your body, whether you cheer, applaud, move, dance or sing. McGonigal said you’re more ...

Your editorial (“What reopenings tell us about national culture”, FT View, FT Weekend, June 27) refers to the term French sociologist Émile Durkheim coined for those transcendent occasions when ...

DALLAS — Thousands of people will descend on North Texas to capture a glimpse of the total solar eclipse on April 8. The excitement for the moment is obvious and that has a lot of people traveling and ...

Theory and Society, Vol. 47, No. 2 (April 2018), pp. 233-254 (22 pages) Collective effervescence plays a foundational role in the generation of society. Both the canonical explication of this concept, ...

With a runway of smoking-hot coals laid out before them, residents in San Pedro Manrique, Spain, steel themselves as thousands of onlookers cheer them on. The crowd roars when they walk across the ...