"Ultimately, marriage is a moral issue that requires cultural consensus and the use of social sanctions," he said.
Now there is a cultural and political consensus in society that we have to act.
There is hardly a cultural consensus about what meanings it should convey, or a commonly understood architectural language with which to convey them.
In the 50's and 60's, architecture had the support of a cultural consensus once rooted in liberal arts education.
From this perspective, the shared knowledge that forms cultural consensus can be assessed in much the same way as expertise or general intelligence.
Unlike the Jews of some 2000 years ago, we have no ready-made symbols to represent what that day means to us, nor any general cultural consensus.
The "social conventions" method of identifying the genre of a film is based on the accepted cultural consensus within society.
There is a broad cultural consensus that unwanted sexual advances are morally repugnant, but the law concerns itself with monetary recovery for tangible harm.
An advantage of cultural consensus is the availability of necessary sample size information and that necessary sample sizes do not need to be very large.