id author title date pages extension mime words sentence flesch summary cache txt w3763488d3w Isaac Kimmel Rah Rah Ritual: Emotional Energy, Symbolic Salience, and Collective Identity in High School Athletics 2019 .txt text/plain 172 5 25 Engagement in high school basketball creates emotional energy as enumerated by Randall Collins, which is then invested into symbols akin to Durkheim's totems. This is a grounded theory study attempting to answer the question of why high school sports are appealing to individuals without direct personal connections to contesting teams, incorporating observations from 16 high school basketball games that took place at 7 different gyms in Indiana over the course of the 2018-19 season. cache/w3763488d3w.txt txt/w3763488d3w.txt