Collectivist
adjective
Favoring or trying to develop a system where everything is owned or controlled by the whole society, not by individuals.
Her political stance is collectivist, she believes in common ownership of the means of production.
Often appears as...
- collectivist approach
- collectivist society
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Academic
noun
A person who supports a system where everything is owned or controlled by the entire society, not by individual people.
As a collectivist, he advocates for shared ownership and responsibilities in the society.
Often appears as...
- become a collectivist
- identify as a collectivist
adjective
Favoring or trying to develop a system where everything is owned or controlled by the whole society, not by individuals.
Her political stance is collectivist, she believes in common ownership of the means of production.
Often appears as...
- collectivist approach
- collectivist society
Usage tips
Academic
noun
A person who supports a system where everything is owned or controlled by the entire society, not by individual people.
As a collectivist, he advocates for shared ownership and responsibilities in the society.
Often appears as...
- become a collectivist
- identify as a collectivist
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Pro Tip 1/3Political Alignment
Often relates to left-wing politics advocating for shared resources and responsibilities.
The party's collectivist values encourage community-driven initiatives.
Pro Tip 2/3Contrasts Individualism
Understanding individualism helps grasp collectivist views, which emphasize group goals over personal ones.
Her collectivist views oppose the individualistic focus on personal wealth.
Pro Tip 3/3Cultural Context
Collectivist principles are more common in some cultures, like in many Asian societies.
In his collectivist culture, family decisions are made together.
Pro Tip 1/3Political Alignment
Often relates to left-wing politics advocating for shared resources and responsibilities.
The party's collectivist values encourage community-driven initiatives.
Pro Tip 2/3Contrasts Individualism
Understanding individualism helps grasp collectivist views, which emphasize group goals over personal ones.
Her collectivist views oppose the individualistic focus on personal wealth.
Pro Tip 3/3Cultural Context
Collectivist principles are more common in some cultures, like in many Asian societies.
In his collectivist culture, family decisions are made together.
Pro Tip 1/3Political Alignment
Often relates to left-wing politics advocating for shared resources and responsibilities.
The party's collectivist values encourage community-driven initiatives.
Pro Tip 2/3Contrasts Individualism
Understanding individualism helps grasp collectivist views, which emphasize group goals over personal ones.
Her collectivist views oppose the individualistic focus on personal wealth.
Pro Tip 3/3Cultural Context
Collectivist principles are more common in some cultures, like in many Asian societies.
In his collectivist culture, family decisions are made together.
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when you're able to temporarily hand over responsibility for your life to someone else. Now, anthropologists suggest that one reason why this word might have been named and celebrated in Japan is because of that country's traditionally collectivist culture,
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when you're able to temporarily hand over responsibility for your life to someone else. Now, anthropologists suggest that one reason why this word might have been named and celebrated in Japan is because of that country's traditionally collectivist culture,
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Rana el Kaliouby
Egyptian Scientist
In general, in more collectivist cultures, we see that in group settings, people dampen their emotions but are very expressive when they are at home alone. In more individualistic cultures, such as North America and Europe, it's the opposite - people are more expressive in group settings than when they are by themselves.
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P. J. O'Rourke
American Comedian
Children live in the only successful Marxist state ever created: the family. 'From each according to his ability, to each according to his need' is the family's practice as well as its theory. Even with today's scattershot patterns of marriage and parenting, a family is collectivist to a more than North Korean degree.
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Charlie Kirk
American Activist
Since the end of WWII, France's steady movement away from Western ideas of individual liberty and self-determination - and toward collectivist action and conformance - has created a people overly dependent on government, hobbled by crippling taxes and lacking in individual initiative.
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Nick Clegg
British Politician
Liberalism is a really old British tradition and it has a completely different attitude towards the individual and the relationship between the individual and the state than the collectivist response of Labour, and particularly Old Labour, does.
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Bruce Rauner
American Businessman
We've become a collectivist economy in Illinois. It's crushing us. And no problem is going to get fixed unless we bring more economic freedom into the state. And I believe that very passionately.
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Christopher Lasch
American Historian
In an individualistic culture, the narcissist is God's gift to the world. In a collectivist society, the narcissist is God's gift to the collective.
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Rachel Campos-Duffy
American Entertainer
Progressives control America's schools and text book industry and they dishonestly leave the ugliest parts of the collectivist story out.
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Rana el Kaliouby
Egyptian Scientist
In general, in more collectivist cultures, we see that in group settings, people dampen their emotions but are very expressive when they are at home alone. In more individualistic cultures, such as North America and Europe, it's the opposite - people are more expressive in group settings than when they are by themselves.
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P. J. O'Rourke
American Comedian
Children live in the only successful Marxist state ever created: the family. 'From each according to his ability, to each according to his need' is the family's practice as well as its theory. Even with today's scattershot patterns of marriage and parenting, a family is collectivist to a more than North Korean degree.
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Charlie Kirk
American Activist
Since the end of WWII, France's steady movement away from Western ideas of individual liberty and self-determination - and toward collectivist action and conformance - has created a people overly dependent on government, hobbled by crippling taxes and lacking in individual initiative.
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Nick Clegg
British Politician
Liberalism is a really old British tradition and it has a completely different attitude towards the individual and the relationship between the individual and the state than the collectivist response of Labour, and particularly Old Labour, does.
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Bruce Rauner
American Businessman
We've become a collectivist economy in Illinois. It's crushing us. And no problem is going to get fixed unless we bring more economic freedom into the state. And I believe that very passionately.
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Christopher Lasch
American Historian
In an individualistic culture, the narcissist is God's gift to the world. In a collectivist society, the narcissist is God's gift to the collective.
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Rachel Campos-Duffy
American Entertainer
Progressives control America's schools and text book industry and they dishonestly leave the ugliest parts of the collectivist story out.
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