Collective Memory is a shared understanding of the past events of a Social Organization or Social Institution.
- Collective memory serves to “get people on the same page” about the past. (For getting people on the same page about the present, we use Meetings (Sociology).)
Collective Memory
Collective Culture
- Music is always shared. It probably evolved in order to sync us up. Music in Human Evolution | Melting Asphalt
- Cultural references. TV shows (e.g. The Office) that people assume everybody has watched.
- Celebrities, or the people we consider prestigious.
Ideology
Ideology is a form of collective knowledge that a subject is unaware of.