Context: Sociological attention to emotion has varied over time. Emilé Durkheim (1915/1965) wrote about the collective effervescence or emotional energy that was experienced by members of totemic rituals in Australian aborigine society. He explained how the heightened state of emotional energy achieved during totemic rituals transported individuals above themselves giving them the sense that they were in the presence of a higher power, a force, that was embedded in the sacred objects that were worshipped. These feelings of exaltation, he argued, ultimately lead people to believe that there were forces that governed sacred objects.

Question: Who discussed the idea of a collective effervescence?
Answer: Emilé Durkheim

Question: What society was studied to describe the notion of collective effervescence?
Answer: Australian aborigine society

Question: Durkheim saw collective effervescence in what Australian aboriginal activity?
Answer: totemic rituals

Question: What is another term for collective effervescence?
Answer: emotional energy

Question: Who didn't discuss the idea of a collective effervescence?
Answer: Unanswerable

Question: What society was studied to describe the notion of collective non-effervescence?
Answer: Unanswerable

Question: Durkheim saw collective effervescence in what Australian non-aboriginal activity?
Answer: Unanswerable

Question: What is another term for collective non-effervescence?
Answer: Unanswerable