The word "collectivities" is correct and usable in written English
It refers to groups of individuals or entities that are considered as a whole. Example: "The study focused on the various collectivities that emerged during the social movement." Alternatives include "groups" or "communities."
Dissent's relationship to toleration involves the role of minority groups in larger collectivities, whose practices are often seen by other members of the larger collective as dissenting from the norms of that collective.
According to the approach suggested by the U.S. political scientist Hadley Cantril, participation in vital collectivities supplies a sense of meaning through group affirmation and action and raises the member's estimate of his social status, both of which are important needs often frustrated in modern society.
For administrative purposes, Madagascar is divided into a system of decentralized territorial collectivities: provinces, regions, and communes.
A small number of local governments, known as collectivités territoriales à statut particulier ("territorial collectivities with special status"), have slightly different administrative frameworks; among these are the island of Corsica and the large cities of Paris, Lyon, and Marseille.
The main units of local government, defined by the constitution as collectivités territoriales ("territorial collectivities"), are the régions, the départements, the communes, and the overseas territories.
The end products of social movements as collectivities attempting to change the social order cannot be analyzed simply in terms of success or failure.
An aggregate collectivity is a mere collection of individuals such as a crowd or the people standing at a bus stop or a statistical category such as middle-income earners.
It is, from the perspective of most of those now writing on collective responsibility, an appropriate site of collective responsibility, since, unlike an aggregate collectivity, it supplies us with a moral agent capable of purposeful action.
An aggregate collectivity, Peter French writes, is "merely a collection of people" (French 1984, p. 5).
In meeting the challenge of making irreducibility compatible with individual ownership, a lot depends on where exactly the collectivity is placed in the analysis of collective intentionality.
By contrast a collective right is held jointly by the individuals who make up the collectivity and is grounded in the standing and interests of those individuals.
