Rationales
Crystallization of the experience of a particular group (no abstract theories)
2 dimensions: Evidence and intensity of subjective response (lure into explicitness of latent feelings of a group)
Intended to lead to, or guide, programs of action ---> proto-ideologies --> less concern with cognition than recognition.
Like propaganda, they tend to convince the already convinced.
Like ideologies, they are selective in the view of linguistic, cultural, and ethnic groups.