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Collective can also refer to the collective pitch flight control in helicopters

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.

Types of collectives

• art collectives
• activist collectives
• environment collectives
• health collectives
• law collectives
• music collectives
• newspaper collectives
• research collectives

See also

• collective bargaining
• collective farming
• Collective noun
• collectivism
• groupthink
• kibbutz

External links

• Anarchy in Action: Collectives
• Collective Labor is Direct Action: an introduction to worker owned collectives Andrew W. Smith, 2003

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