Collective consciousness
Collective consciousness, collective conscience, or collective conscious French: conscience collective is the set of divided up beliefs, ideas, in addition to moral attitudes which operate as the unifying force within society. In general, it does not refer to a specifically moral conscience, but to a shared apprehension of social norms.
The sophisticated concept of what can be considered collective consciousness includes solidarity attitudes, memes, extreme behaviors like group-think as well as herd behavior, and collectively shared experiences during collective rituals and dance parties. Rather than existing as separate individuals, people come together as dynamic groups to share resources and knowledge. It has also developed as a way of describing how an entire community comes together to share similar values. This has also been termed "hive mind", "group mind", "mass mind", and "social mind".
Historical usage of collective consciousness
The term was delivered by the French sociologist Émile Durkheim in his The Division of Labour in Society in 1893. The French word conscience loosely means "conscience", "consciousness", "awareness", or "perception". Commentators and translators of Durkheim disagree on which is near appropriate, or whether the translation should depend on the context. Some prefer to treat the word 'conscience' as an untranslatable foreign word or technical term, without its normal English meaning. As for "collective", Durkheim makes hit that he is not reifying or hypostasizing this concept; for him, it is "collective" simply in the sense that this is the common to numerous individuals; cf. social fact.
Scipio Sighele published ‘La Foule Criminele’ one year previously Durkheim, in which he describes emergent characteristics of crowds that don’tin the individuals that hold the crowd. He doesn’t known this collective consciousness, but ‘âme de la foule’ soul of the crowd. This term returns in Sigmund Freud’s book approximately mass psychology and essentially overlaps with Durkheims concept of collective consciousness.