collective consciousness
Group mental unity
Collective consciousness is the shared beliefs, ideas, and attitudes that unite a group or society.
The term comes from sociology, where it describes how communities develop common values that transcend individual minds.
More loosely, it refers to widespread awareness or cultural knowledge: The assassination entered the collective consciousness.
The phrase sometimes carries mystical overtones, suggesting a literal merging of minds.
Era's dominant mentality
- mythosBody of foundational legends
- ethosCollective moral character
- worldviewComprehensive belief framework
- cultural memoryShared knowledge across generations
ideology · archetype · national psyche · group identity · tribal knowledge · ancestral memory · folk wisdom · public opinion
Unity among allies
- interconnectednessState of mutual linkage
- onenessState of being unified
- togethernessState of close connection
- cohesionTendency to bind together
shared humanity · ubuntu · fellowship · esprit de corps · common purpose · group cohesion · social fabric · belonging
Unified group consciousness
- gestaltIntegrated perceptual whole
- swarm intelligenceDecentralized group decision-making
- superorganismUnified colonial entity
- telepathyDirect mental communication
Conformity-driven poor decisions
- consensusGeneral group agreement
- herd mentalityTendency to follow crowds
- mob psychologyStudy of crowd behavior
- social pressureGroup influence on behavior
conformity · peer influence · bandwagon effect · crowd psychology · social contagion · echo chamber · pack mentality · majority rule
zeitgeist
Era's dominant mentality
- mythosBody of foundational legends
- ethosCollective moral character
- worldviewComprehensive belief framework
cultural memory · ideology · archetype · national psyche · group identity · tribal knowledge · ancestral memory · folk wisdom · public opinion
solidarity
Unity among allies
- interconnectednessState of mutual linkage
- onenessState of being unified
- togethernessState of close connection
cohesion · shared humanity · ubuntu · fellowship · esprit de corps · common purpose · group cohesion · social fabric · belonging · kinship
hive mind
Unified group consciousness
- gestaltIntegrated perceptual whole
- swarm intelligenceDecentralized group decision-making
- superorganismUnified colonial entity
groupthink
Conformity-driven poor decisions
- consensusGeneral group agreement
- herd mentalityTendency to follow crowds
- mob psychologyStudy of crowd behavior
social pressure · conformity · peer influence · bandwagon effect · crowd psychology · social contagion · echo chamber · pack mentality · majority rule
- communityneighbors, neighborliness, neighborhoods, kinship, community centers
- hive mindsBorg, Flood, Unity
- collective mindhive mind, hivemind, swarm intelligence, mind meld, Borg
- French sociologyanomie, habitus, cultural capital, social capital, division of labor
- social theoriesfunctionalism, Marxism, feminism, structuralism, postmodernism
- herd behaviorherd mentality, bandwagon effect, conformism, peer pressure, following the crowd
collective consciousnesssubjective experience
First-person felt quality
inner life · self-consciousness · stream of consciousness · ego
collective consciousnessindividualism
Doctrine of personal independence
anomie · alienation · atomism · radical individualism · solipsism
collective consciousnesscollective unconscious
Inherited psychological heritage of humanity
collection, collected, conscious, unconscious, collective, collector, recollection, subconscious, collections