In this article: I have tried to present a small research on the subject of the collective mind
In this article you will find:
meaning of the collective mind
Factors affecting the collective mind
Misleading collective work if misused
Now: I will put before you a picture from the past, so that you can get acquainted with the concept of the collective mind
Does history repeat itself in the way people dress and behave, like: bright morning , please and thank you, is this behavior applicable now? The collective mind of art, school, media, religion, economics and politics all give a final outcome represented by you and me and us in a society... to the details
what's the collective mind meaning?
A collective mind considers relationships between parts and wholes, stability and change, individuals and society and rationality and creativity rather than boundaries that divide them.
Collective Mind believes in the power of networks to create social change through collective action.
Scientists look beyond the individual brain to study the collective mind
“Accumulating evidence indicates that memory, reasoning, decision-making and other higher-level functions take place across people,” the researchers wrote in a review in the journal Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience. “Cognition extends into the physical world and the brains of others.”
Take, for instance, the fact that people often “outsource” the task of understanding or coming to conclusions about complex subject matter, using other people’s expertise to guide their own decision-making. “Without relying on experts in our community
our beliefs would become untethered from the social conventions and scientific evidence that are necessary to support them,” he said. “It would become unclear, for example, whether ‘smoking causes lung cancer,’ bringing into question the truth of our beliefs, the motivation for our actions.” The limitations of individual knowledge and human dependence on others for understanding are the themes of “The Knowledge Illusion: Why We Never Think Alone,” a book Sloman wrote with Phil Fernbach, a cognitive scientist and professor of marketing at the University of Colorado.
In a recent study
researchers placed two people face-to-face in a scanner and tracked their brain activity and eye movements while they interacted. Other teams use a technique called “hyperscanning,” which allows the simultaneous recording of brain activity in people who are physically distant from each another but interacting onlin, such efforts have found evidence suggesting that the same brain regions are activated in people who are effectively communicating with one another or cooperating on a task, Barbey said. These studies are also showing how brains operate differently from one another, depending on the type of interaction and the context.
Which factors make up a culture's collective consciousness?
In complex societies, a number of different social institutions contribute to maintaining a collective consciousness. This includes religion, but also politics, the media, schools, families, and the economy. Collective consciousness exists as something larger than the individuals who make up a society.
First: the religion:
Durkheim argues that the main function of religion is to create a Collective conscience as it allows for shared values and moral beliefs to be reinforced in society. This is reinforced by collective worship allowing for social solidarity and the collective conscience to be strengthened.
second: Politics
Laws that socialize people into what is “right and wrong” in their society.
Third: The media
The mass media overwhelmingly manifest our society's collective consciousness. In other words, the mass media are the clearest and obvious manifestation of our civilization's perceptions or collective brain function. Almost every home has a television, and ordinary citizens use it for about four hours per day. Our main insight into the universe and the mirror in which we saw ourselves was TV. these include mass media channels, profit-centered news outlets, ads that promote the American dream reflecting the consumerist lifestyle and their implications on our social mind.
Forth: schools:
The difficulty in improving instruction at scale has led researchers to study the important elements necessary in a district to facilitate the process. As part of their theory of action, Cobb and Jackson (2011) suggest that one critical component to reforming instruction at scale is the existence of a network of professional relationships among teachers to facilitate dissemination of knowledge and innovations. In addition, multiple scholars have discussed the importance of culture and teacher beliefs in reforming classroom instruction (e.g., Sarason, 1996). This paper provides insight into the relationship between teacher networks and an important aspect of a school’s culture, collective efficacy. The work of Bandura (1986, 1997) illustrates that the level of collective efficacy in an organization is influenced by four sources: mastery experience, vicarious experience, verbal persuasion, and physiological and affective states. In schools, collective efficacy can thus be built not just by the success of the individual or group (mastery experience) but by the accomplishments (vicarious experience) and the encouragement (verbal persuasion) of others. Teachers’ social networks facilitate these sources.
Fifith: The Families:
In the current research, we have, for the first time, compared three groups of children from the same cultural background, but who come from different sized families and have different social experiences. It is therefore striking to see that children’s performances in the ToM measures are similar in all three groups. This is contrary to previous findings from Western cultures, which show that children from lower socioeconomic backgrounds have lower scores in false belief tests (Cutting & Dunn, 1999; Holmes, Black, & Miller, 1996). Our results, however, do support the findings of other research which shows similarities in false belief understanding between children from very diverse cultural backgrounds (Callaghan et al., 2005). This finding is important because it is the first study of non-Western children that includes a large sample of children from diverse subcultural backgrounds, and it shows that having sibling or coming from a certain size family are not predictors of ToM development. These results draw our attention to an important limitation in the literature: if we are to understand human development, samples should be drawn from various cultural and social backgrounds.
sixth: the economey:
This study assesses the impact of economic ideology and national culture on the individual work values of managers in the United States, Russia, Japan, and China. The convergence-divergence-crossvergence (CDC) framework was used as a theoretical framework for the study, while the Schwartz Value Survey (SVS) was used to operationalize our investigation of managerial work values across these four countries. The findings largely support the crossvergence perspective, while also confirming the role of national culture. Implications from the findings are drawn for the convergence-divergence-crossvergence of values, as well as for the feasibility of multidomestic or global strategies for a corporate culture.
The collective Illusions”
Why false consensus in society is so dangerous?
In a perfect world, the relationship between private opinion and public opinion would be basically like a mirror. At its best, the public opinion holds a mirror to us, and it reflects exactly who we are. But because of collective illusions, that’s typically not the case.
Collective illusions lead individuals to make decisions that are contrary to their private values simply because a majority of people in a group believe the majority thinks something that they don’t. As a result, the entire group can end up doing something that almost nobody wants, which is fatal to a free society.
But if society creates a space where people feel comfortable expressing views they believe might deviate from the group, you’ll find out pretty quickly whether your impression of the group is correct or not. Even when we fundamentally end up disagreeing, a truthful disagreement is always better than a collective illusion.
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