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.
Essentially, the two phases are both state-controlled processes of individualization that conforms with the traditional definition of individuals, since they are always subordinated to the larger collectivities, such as families, ancestries, or the nation state (Yan 2012, 376).
In large collectivities like social classes, ethnic groups, or nations, the particular blends of these predispositions may vary greatly from stratum to stratum and subculture to subculture.
But youth today has abandoned solitude in favor of pack-running, of predatory assembly, of great collectivities that bury, if they do not destroy, individuality. . . .
This is a concern that scales up in his work from the question of what one person might know of another to larger questions of collectivity, of those "imagined communities"—to borrow Benedict Anderson's famous phrase called nations.
However, each ethnic group is 'a collectivity within a larger society having a real or common ancestry, memories of a shared historical past, and a cultural focus' (Schermerhorn 1970 122).
Ethnic group has been defined as "a collectivity within a larger population having real or putative common ancestry, memories of a shared past, and a cultural focus upon one or more symbolic elements which define the group's identity…" [ 3].
Jenkins [ 31], defines identity as ways in which individuals and collectivities are distinguished in their social relations with other individuals and collectiveness.
The concept of historicity suggests that Dasein always "temporalizes," or acts in time, as part of a larger social and historical collectivity as part of a people or Volk.
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.
In groups or tribal collectivities, solidarity that insists on everyone's being in agreement won't provide the necessary glue.
