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->''Why do the students sing, chant, dance, sway, chomp, and stomp so enthusiastically during the game? Showing support for their football team may help to motivate the players, but is that the function of these behaviors? Are they done in order to achieve victory? No. From a Durkheimian perspective these behaviors serve a very different function and it is the same one that Durkheim saw in most religious rituals: the creation of a community.''

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->''Why ->Why do the students sing, chant, dance, sway, chomp, and stomp so enthusiastically during the game? Showing support for their football team may help to motivate the players, but is that the function of these behaviors? Are they done in order to achieve victory? No. From a Durkheimian perspective these behaviors serve a very different function and it is the same one that Durkheim saw in most religious rituals: the creation of a community.''
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->''Why do the students sing, chant, dance, sway, chomp, and stomp so enthusiastically during the game? Showing support for their football team may help to motivate the players, but is that the function of these behaviors? Are they done in order to achieve victory? No. From a Durkheimian perspective these behaviors serve a very different function and it is the same one that Durkheim saw in most religious rituals: the creation of a community.''
-->Johnathan Haidt, ''The Righteous Mind''
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->"This crowd needs to shut their mouth. You don't yell at the screen when you go to the movies, quit trying to dictate these matches."
-->--'''Kenny Bolin''', Ohio Valley Wrestling

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