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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 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 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 ...
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.
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 ).
Collective IQ is a measure of collective intelligence, although it is often used interchangeably with the term collective intelligence. Collective intelligence has also been attributed to bacteria and animals. [2] It can be understood as an emergent property from the synergies among: data-information-knowledge; software-hardware