collective account

Their collective accounts have contributed to Ronda's popularity over time.

Their statements to federal investigators were "contradictory and false," and showed that they had conspired to fabricate a collective account.

Had we emphasized not the choices made but the social rules followed by social actors, then a more collective account of social action would have emerged.

Pepe's flashback is not a personal account but a collective account of what his people have heard of Dr. Aranya.

As a contrast to the sometimes generative nature of previously mentioned studies on cultural memory, an alternative 'school' with its origins in gender and postcolonial studies underscored the importance of the individual and particular memories of those unheard in most collective accounts: women, minorities, homosexuals, etc.