Imaginary (sociology)
The imaginary, or social imaginary is the set of values, institutions, laws, and symbols common to a particular social group and the corresponding society.
'The social imaginary... the creative and symbolic dimension of the social world, the dimension through which human beings create their ways of living together and their ways of representing their collective life'.
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“Understanding replaces imaginary fears with real ones.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)