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Collective identity or group identity is a shared sense of belonging to a group. This concept appears within a few social science fields. 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.
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Meta-analysis results also confirm that social identity causally predicts collective action across a number of diverse contexts. Additionally, the integrated SIMCA affords another important role to social identity – that of a psychological bridge forming the collective base from which both collective efficacy and group injustice may be conceived.
Collective memory refers to the shared pool of memories, knowledge and information of a social group that is significantly associated with the group's identity. [1] [2] [3] The English phrase "collective memory" and the equivalent French phrase "la mémoire collective" appeared in the second half of the nineteenth century.
Relatedly, collective identity is an overarching framework for different types of identity development, emphasizing the multidimensionality of group membership. [11] Part of collective identity includes positioning oneself psychologically in a group to which one shares some characteristic(s).
Although identity-based movements are necessary for the progress of democracy and can generate collective consciousness, they cannot completely do so without a unifying framework. This is why anti-war and labor movements provide an avenue that has united various social movements under the banner of a multiple collective consciousness.
The Collective is perhaps best known for developing the Combahee River Collective Statement, [7] [8] a key document in the history of contemporary Black feminism and the development of the concepts of identity politics as used among political organizers and social theorists, [9] [10] and for introducing the concept of interlocking systems of ...
Group rights, also known as collective rights, are rights held by a group as a whole rather than individually by its members. [2] In contrast, individual rights are rights held by individual people ; even if they are group-differentiated, which most rights are, they remain individual rights if the right-holders are the individuals themselves.