privatism

Escalating privatism, materialism, organizational hierarchy, and conformity were troubling, but the cure was always to strive harder and reap the rewards for good behavior.

James Block: From Occupy to Progressive Renewal: Demanding the Just Society James Block 2011

The Pope further warns against the overextension of welfare policies; if solidarity---which in this case means social assistance programs---fail to take into account subsidiarity, or vice versa, it will descend into "paternalistic social assistance" or "social privatism."

Archive 2009-08-01 John M 2009

Studies of Internet and community have found that information and communication technologies provide new opportunities for social interaction, but that it may also increase privatism by isolating people in their homes.

Smart Mobs » Blog Archive » New study on effects of Internet use on social networks & neighborhoods 2006

In his essay “The Tragedy of the Commons,” Garrett Hardin envisioned only two ways to save the commons: statism and privatism.

Capitalism 3.0~ Chapter 3 2008

If an “unmanaged commons” is inevitably self-destructive, and a “managed commons” is, by definition, either socialism or privatism, we are still left with only three alternatives: tragedy, statism, or privatism.

Capitalism 3.0~ Chapter 1 2007

Arrington's subsidiary themes concern Young's efforts to separate God's chosen people from the corrupt Gentile world and to build a self-sufficient society based on economic cooperation, as opposed to the individualism and privatism of American society at large.

Secrets of the Mormons Davis, David Brion 1985

(We prefer the concept privatism to narcissism or hedonism because it doesn't seem quite as value-laden.)

Prime Time Preachers: The Rising Power of Televangelism; with an Introduction by T George Harris 1981

We must explain their affectlessness by their institutions, the centralizing social organization, competitive economy, suburban privatism, processing schooling, consumer ideology, prejudices; in brief, by the American way of life which is a cotton-batting against the flesh-and-blood reality of their actions.

Victims of Hiroshima Lifton, Robert Jay 1968

This essay argues that behind the ostensible nuptial privatism of the mid-nineteenth century lay a self-conscious policy of judicial governance.

Legal History Blog 2010

Baltimore lagged behind the other American metropolises because of its culture of privatism and the politicization of its municipal administration.

Conservapedia - Recent changes [en] 2010