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单词 communitarianism
释义 communitarianism, n.
Brit. |kəˌmjuːnɪˈtɛːrɪənɪz(ə)m|, U.S. |kəˌmjnəˈtɛriənɪzəm|
[‹ communitarian adj. + -ism suffix Compare slightly later communitarian n.
On Barmby's introduction of this term and communitarian adj., communitarian n. compare:
1948Jrnl. Hist. Ideas 9 279 Théodore Dezamy founded a periodical entitled Le Communautaire in 1840... For two or three years thereafter, communautaire existed alongside communiste, until the latter finally eclipsed it. The naturalization of practically all these new terms was the work of John Goodwyn Barmby, who went to Paris..in June 1840, just as the new French terms were being introduced.]
1. A theory or system of social organization based on the creation of small self-governing (and freq. self-sufficient) communities; advocacy or practice of such a system. Now chiefly hist.
1840J. G. Barmby in New Moral World 1 Aug. 74/2 This translation..contains..a list of French works, which have been published on Communitarianism as advocated by us in England.1843G. B. Cheever Characteristics of Christian Philos. App. in Dartmouth 5 67 (heading) Communitarianism and the Boston Transcendentalism.1950Amer. Hist. Rev. 56 148 Weitling felt the pull of communitarianism—the idea..of using a small experimental community as the means to general social reform.1973B. R. Wilson Magic & Millennium (1975) 496 Fictive kinship, surrogate tribalism and selective communitarianism are bases of allegiance perhaps as compelling as the indigenous phenomena for which they substitute and which in some measure they replace.1990B. R. Wilson in J. McManners Oxf. Illustr. Hist. Christianity (1993) xvii. 604 Later, at the fringe of Christianity or beyond it, another wave of communitarianism occurred attracting younger people into less stable communal organizations.
2. Sociol. and Polit. (orig. U.S.). A theory or ideology which rejects as divisive both the market-led theories of political conservatives and the liberal concern for individual rights, advocating instead a recognition of common moral values, collective responsibility, and the social importance of the family unit.
1984G. C. Lodge Amer. Dis. ii. 44 Communitarianism is the emerging rival to individualism in contemporary America.1986Soundings 69 62 Communitarianism..rejects the kind of liberalism that seeks to ‘empower’ exploited groups by conquering the state.1988New Statesman 3 June 22/1 Their new Tory communitarianism has a strong whiff of Lady Bountiful about it... They do not see that a community cannot be fashioned out of a series of altruistic spasms; that a sense of community depends upon a sense that the burdens and proceeds of community action are fairly shared.1993Governing Aug. 33/1 Initially, communitarianism was the province of a loose collection of academics, led by sociologist Amitai Etzioni.2000D. Brooks Bobos in Paradise 238 Over the past decade there has been a mountain of books and articles devoted to the subject of communitarianism, about the importance of ‘mediating institutions’ and neighborly bonds.
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