单词 | communitarianism |
释义 | communitarianismn. 1. A theory or system of social organization based on the creation of small self-governing (and frequently self-sufficient) communities; advocacy or practice of such a system. Now chiefly historical. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > customs, values, and civilization > [noun] > social structure or system > type of structure or system system1806 white supremacy1824 communitarianism1840 familism1859 the Establishment1955 global village1959 megamachine1967 1840 J. 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. 1843 G. B. Cheever Characteristics of Christian Philos. App., in Dartmouth 5 67 (heading) Communitarianism and the Boston Transcendentalism. 1915 O. W. Firkins R. W. Emerson iv. 172 Trade, which always had a spell for Emerson, is eulogized ; and communism, or communitarianism, is praised with reservations. 1950 Amer. 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. 1973 B. 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. 1990 B. 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. Sociology and Politics (originally 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. ΚΠ 1984 G. C. Lodge Amer. Dis. ii. 44 Communitarianism is the emerging rival to individualism in contemporary America. 1986 Soundings 69 62 Communitarianism..rejects the kind of liberalism that seeks to ‘empower’ exploited groups by conquering the state. 1988 New 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. 1993 Governing Aug. 33/1 Initially, communitarianism was the province of a loose collection of academics, led by sociologist Amitai Etzioni. 2000 D. 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. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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