| 单词 | group personality |
| 释义 | > as lemmasgroup personality group personality n. (a) a group of people considered as a single entity, esp. in political or legal contexts (cf. group person n. (a)); (b) a set of personal characteristics or qualities shared by the members of a social group; the distinctive character of a group. ΚΠ 1897 Amer. Jrnl. Sociol. 3 74 In the gropings of a vast collective life towards self-consciousness, swift-divining genius finds just that hint which incites it to imagine and to glorify a gigantic group personality. 1929 Social Forces 8 92/1 Migration to a pioneer area is apt to occur in an effort to protect the group personality. 1934 E. Barker tr. O. F. Gierke Nat. Law Theory Society I. iii. i. 81 In his [sc. Hobbes'] theory of corporations, as in his theory of the State, the central conception is that of the unity of group-personality. 1991 R. J. Goebbel Mustang Ace ii. 31 All the cadets were beginning to take on a group personality. 2008 M. B. Vieira & D. Runciman Representation i. 13 The conciliar movement that began towards the end of the fourteenth century drew on the theory of group personality to argue that the unity of the church resulted from the corporate association of its members. < as lemmas |
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