# collective self (shared)

A self model kept across many members, whose subject is the group they are members of, so the group reads itself as one thing.

- Computed level: L15 (depth in the emergence graph, not abstraction)
- Status: published  ·  Domain: agency

## Emergence
**Emerges from:** [self-model](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-self-model.reflexive), [member](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-member.social), [groups](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-groups.collection), [model](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-model.representation), [keep](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-keep.maintenance), [across](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-across.spatial), [read](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-read.information), [subject](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-subject.entity)

**Through:** Each member holds a model of the group that includes itself; where those models overlap, the group can report on, protect and steer itself as though it were a single self, though no single member holds the whole.

**Novel properties:**
- a self with no single holder
- a boundary drawn by many models at once
- the subject of 'we'

## Examples
- Surveys asking whether people identify first with their nation, region or religion measure which collective self each respondent's model holds most strongly. *(social science)*

## Used by
- [american dream](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-american-dream.upward-reach) (L19)
- [asian century](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-asian-century.claimed-future) (L19)
- [belonging](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-belonging.member) (L16)
- [bharat vs india](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-bharat-vs-india.names) (L17)
- [buy local](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-buy-local.firms) (L17)
- [citizens first](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-citizens-first.ranked) (L16)
- [consumer confidence](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-consumer-confidence.measured) (L17)
- [country in decline](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-country-in-decline.downward) (L19)
- [crisis of confidence](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-crisis-of-confidence.collapse) (L20)
- [deep state](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-deep-state.hidden) (L18)
- [diaspora vote](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-diaspora-vote.abroad) (L18)
- [economic anxiety](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-economic-anxiety.unlocated) (L20)
- [economic nationalism](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-economic-nationalism.firms) (L19)
- [elite](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-elite.few) (L17)
- [engine of growth](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-engine-of-growth.driver) (L16)
- [establishment](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-establishment.settled) (L17)
- [fear and greed](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-fear-and-greed.swing) (L18)
- [feel-good factor](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-feel-good-factor.rising) (L18)
- [fifth column](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-fifth-column.inside) (L17)
- [foreign interference](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-foreign-interference.outside) (L19)
- [founding fathers](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-founding-fathers.origin) (L19)
- [golden age](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-golden-age.past-peak) (L21)
- [greatest generation](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-greatest-generation.past-cohort) (L19)
- [heartland](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-heartland.core) (L17)
- [hunger for change](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-hunger-for-change.appetite) (L16)
- [ick factor](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-ick-factor.aversion) (L17)
- [in-group](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-in-group.inside) (L16)
- [law-abiding citizens](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-law-abiding-citizens.deserving) (L19)
- [locals only](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-locals-only.closed) (L16)
- [lost decade](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-lost-decade.stalled) (L19)
- [market jitters](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-market-jitters.near-wall) (L18)
- [middle class](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-middle-class.centre) (L18)
- [miracle economy](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-miracle-economy.outran-model) (L19)
- [mood of the country](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-mood-of-the-country.read) (L16)
- [morale](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-morale.collective) (L16)
- [nation of immigrants](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-nation-of-immigrants.arrival) (L19)
- [nation of shopkeepers](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-nation-of-shopkeepers.kind) (L16)
- [national champion](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-national-champion.carrier) (L18)
- [national pride](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-national-pride.collective) (L19)
- [never again](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-never-again.past-wall) (L21)

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*Canonical: https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-collective-self.shared*  
*Structured data: https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-collective-self.shared.json*  
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