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A collective is a group of entities that share or are motivated by at least one common issue or interest or work together to achieve a common objective. [ citation needed ] Collectives can differ from cooperatives in that they are not necessarily focused upon an economic benefit or saving, though they can be.
In linguistics, a collective noun is a word referring to a collection of things taken as a whole. Most collective nouns in everyday speech are not specific to one kind of thing. [1] For example, the collective noun "group" can be applied to people ("a group of people"), or dogs ("a group of dogs"), or objects ("a group of stones").
A collective benefit often benefits more than one person at the cost of an individual acting to obtain the benefit. [1] It is common that an individual may benefit from a collective act without contributing to it. [1] Collective benefits can non-competitive and inclusive if the availability of the benefit does not diminish from the use of one ...
This category contains organisations which define themselves, or are legally defined as a collective. Subcategories This category has the following 14 subcategories, out of 14 total.
Alberto Melucci writes: "collective identity is an interactive and shared definition produced by several individuals (or groups at a more complex level) and concerned with the orientation of action and the field of opportunities and constraints in which the action takes place".
A collective network is a set of social groups linked, directly or indirectly, by some common bond. According to this approach of the social sciences to study social relationships, social phenomena are investigated through the properties of relations among groups, which also influence the internal relations among the individuals of each group ...
Collective responsibility or collective guilt, is the responsibility of organizations, groups and societies. [1] [2] Collective responsibility in the form of collective punishment is often used as a disciplinary measure in closed institutions, e.g., boarding schools (punishing a whole class for the actions of one known or unknown pupil), military units, prisons (juvenile and adult ...
Collective ownership is the ownership of private property by all members of a group. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ nb 1 ] The breadth or narrowness of the group can range from a whole society to a set of coworkers in a particular enterprise (such as one collective farm ).