COLLECTIVE

(Redirected from Collectives)

A 'collective' is a group of people who share or are motivated by at least one common issue or interest, or work together on a specific project(s) to achieve a common objective. Collectives are also characterised by attempts to share and exercise political and social power and to make decisions on a consensus-driven and egalitarian basis. Collectives differ from cooperatives in that they are not necessarily focused upon an economic benefit or saving (but can be that as well).
A commune or intentional community, which may also be known as a "collective household", is a group of people who live together in some kind of dwelling or residence, or in some other arrangement (eg. sharing land). Collective households may be organized for a specific purpose (eg. relating to business, parenting, or some other shared interest).
Collective consciousness is a term created by French social theorist Émile Durkheim that describes how an entire community comes together to share similar values.
The term collective is sometimes used to describe a species as a whole, for example the ''human collective''.

Contents

Types of collectives

See also

External links

Types of collectives

★ activist collectives

★ art collectives

★ environment collectives

★ health collectives

★ law collectives

★ music collectives

★ musical collectives

★ newspaper collectives

★ research collectives

★ theater collectives or theatre collectives

★ workers collective

See also

★ collective bargaining

★ collective farming

★ collective noun

★ collectivism

★ kibbutz

★ mutual aid

★ workplace democracy

External links

★ Collective Labor is Direct Action: an introduction to worker owned collectives Andrew W. Smith, 2003