Collectives

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, according to Wikipedia. This area of this wiki is meant to be for facilitating learning, teaching, and research related to collectives.

Discussion questions and essay ideas

• What are collectives?
• How and why are collectives utilized?
• What are some examples of some collectives that have had a significant impact on society.
• How does the psychology of individuals influence the interactions within collectives?
• How could one describe collectives from a sociological standpoint?
• In what ways might community psychology study or research collectives?

Learning links

Wikipedia

• Collective
• Category:Collectives
• Collective farming
• Collective bargaining
• Collective agreement
• Collective security
• Collective ownership
• Law collective
• Community psychology
• Community organizing
• Asset-based community development
• Psychotherapy and social action model
• Systems thinking
• Group dynamics
• Program evaluation

Examples of collectives on Wikipedia

• One True King
• Telluride House
• International Collective in Support of Fishworkers
• DiY Sound System
• San Isidro Movement

External

• Open Collectives
• Consumer Collectives: A History and Reflections on Their Future
• The Research Collective: A Tool for Producing Timely, Context-linked Research Syntheses
• The collective method: Ccollaborative social science research and scholarly accountability
• Cultivating Hybrid Collectives: Research Methods for Enacting Community Food Economies in Australia and the Philippines

Case studies

• Silenzio Statico - "Silenzio Statico is a collective, initially, based in South Central Los Angeles, which has been documenting and producing radical punk culture"

Discussion questions, research ideas, and essay ideas related to above case study

• How might this collective influence the culture of Los Angeles
• How successful has this collective been in reaching its goals?
• If one were to perform a program evalutation of Silenzio Statico, how might this case study be structured?

  What information would be useful in performing the case study? How could the data be collected?

• What factors have influenced the culture and mission of this collective?

See also

• Collective learning
• Pursuing Collective Wisdom