Yet our governing elite now wants us to devote more time to "community building" (around family life, neighbourhood and church) to counter the decline of collectivity, which its own incessant imposition of managerialism and market imitation have furthered.
Its activities became a major factor in France's decision to change French Polynesia's status from that of a territory to that of an overseas collectivity, which included greater autonomy for the islands.
Mutuality is a feature of many loyalties, and it is often an expectation of the loyal individual that the collectivity to which the individual is loyal will also be loyal in return.
"It was a disgraceful example of the perennial ineptitude of the collectivity of the University of Oxford which has nearly always managed to get these issues wrong.
Instead, Lederberg and McCray suggest that, as a botanist, Winkler must have been familiar with terms such as biome (a biological community), rhizome (a root system), and phyllome (the leaves covering a tree) among others, all of which were in use well before 1920 and all of which signify the collectivity of the units involved [ 79].
Then, we introduced two order parameters to measure the directional and cohesive cell movement, which characterize the collectivity of multicellular movement: (1) the degree of forward movement and (2) the spatial correlation length.
Despite the "liberal economy," America is an embodiment of a Rousseauist "social contract" in which the general will of the "collectivity" dominates: "Each American is educated by other Americans and he educates others in turn.
Taken as a collectivity - which, after all, is often how Americans wish to be considered - their response to this conundrum has been curiously muted.
The absence of formal rules by which to distinguish between members and outsiders, to identify leaders, to establish the aims of the collectivity, to set acceptable limits of behaviour for members, and to specify how collective decisions are to be made accounts for the volatility of collective behaviour.
For the collectivity hypothesis to be supported, sub-populations too would need to be moving in the same direction, which is not the case here.
For Newman, it is not the interests of the collectivity that derive from those of its members; the interests of members qua members derive from those of the collectivity of which they are members.
