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New page: Image:lighterstill.jpg 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 ac...
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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 [[focus]]ed 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 [[value]]s.

==See also==
[[Collective Intelligence]]

==External links==
*[http://web.archive.org/web/20050307063955/http://www.redemmas.org/collectives.shtml Collective Labor is Direct Action: an introduction to worker owned collectives] Andrew W. Smith, 2003
*[http://cllct.com/ The Collective Family] An example of a group of musicians who have bonded together in a collective

[[Category: Sociology]]
[[Category: Political Science]]

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