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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").
Collective consciousness, collective conscience, or collective conscious (French: conscience collective) is the set of shared beliefs, ideas, and moral attitudes which operate as a unifying force within society. [1] In general, it does not refer to the specifically moral conscience, but to a shared understanding of social norms. [2]
Collective identity or group identity is a shared sense of belonging to a group.This concept appears within a few social science fields. National identity is a simple example, though myriad groups exist which share a sense of identity.
Collective representations are a subject of study in the context of genocide and the impact of the media on the formation of collective representations of genocide (where the media is the agent of representation and victims and perpetrators become the subject of representation, even in their own first-hand accounts and testimonies). The ...
The term collective action problem describes the situation in which multiple individuals would all benefit from a certain action, but has an associated cost making it implausible that any individual can or will undertake and solve it alone. The ideal solution is then to undertake this as a collective action, the cost of which is shared.
The expression collective behavior was first used by Franklin Henry Giddings [1] and employed later by Robert Park and Ernest Burgess, [2] Herbert Blumer, [3] Ralph H. Turner and Lewis Killian, [4] and Neil Smelser [5] to refer to social processes and events which do not reflect existing social structure (laws, conventions, and institutions), but which emerge in a "spontaneous" way.
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.