单词 | other-direction |
释义 | other-directionn. Sociology. Orientation of a person's behaviour and standards by the influence of the expectations and example of others. Opposed to inner-direction and tradition-direction n. at tradition n. Compounds 2. ΘΚΠ the mind > will > motivation > persuasion > [noun] > persuadability > tendency to behave like others other-direction1950 other-directedness1951 1950 D. Riesman et al. Lonely Crowd i. 20 It is also my impression that the conditions I believe responsible for other-direction are affecting increasing numbers of people in the metropolitan centers of the advanced industrial countries. 1976 Sociol. of Educ. 49 156/1 Students..lost most of their fear of Communism..and shifted from other-direction to individualism. 1993 W. Weaver tr. U. Eco Misreadings 31 The striptease restores the Platonic situation to the sociological reality of oppression and other-direction. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1950 |
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