The phrase "a source of collective" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to something that provides a shared resource or benefit to a group of people.
Example: "The community center serves as a source of collective support for local families in need."
Alternatives: "a source of shared" or "a source of communal".
A uniform can be vital in creating a sense of school identity and community, and I feel it is often a source of collective pride for students.
However, in this urban melting pot, there is one outlet that provides a source of collective identity: U.S. Città di Palermo.
Similarly, Apple's products are more appealing each year, but our collective addiction to our smartphones has become a source of collective shame: one wonders whether Apple and Jobs have, inadvertently, taught us all a humbling lesson about our relationship to technology.
My opposition, based on the dilution of the identity of Watford as a closely knit community-focused club, has been answered to a degree by the manner in which the imported players have been accepted as a source of collective pride.
However it is perhaps on the urban level and in municipal politics that the tribe comes through in its greatest extent as a source of collective power.
In that article, Mr. Sheehan says the following: 'Historical analogies, comparisons, and metaphors are all around us; they are a source of collective wisdom on which we must rely...
Equally important, is that our stories can also be a source of building collective power.
The excessive distances between the small airports sometimes used by budget airlines and the cities those airlines have advertised as their destination is also a reliable source of collective amusement.
But it might be an appropriate source of collective responsibility for the prolongation of the harm and/or its consequences into the future.
In other words, it might be an appropriate source of collective responsibility for present and future, if not for past, injustices including injustices that began with earlier wrongs.
Hence benefit as when men benefit from sexism and whites from racism does not appear to be an appropriate source of collective responsibility for the past actions of others.
