societarianismn.
/səˌsʌɪəˈtɛːrɪənɪz(ə)m/, U.S. /səˌsaɪəˈtɛriəˌnɪz(ə)m/ A philosophy or ideology which emphasizes the importance and value of society as opposed to the individual. Cf. communitarianism n. 2.
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society > authority > rule or government > politics > political philosophy > socialism > [noun] > other types of socialism
Saint-Simonism1830
democratic socialism1848
social democracy1848
scientific socialism1849
utopian socialism1849
state socialism1851
societarianism1852
internationalism1871
state capitalism?1886
nationalism1889
Liberal-Labourism1905
champagne socialism1906
maximalism1909
guild-socialism1912
Popular Frontism1938
Saint-Simonianism1974
1852 J. G. Manley Ecclesiography p. xx Egoism obscures and depreciates the objective to self; Societarianism obscures and depreciates self to exalt society.
a1866 J. Grote Exam. Utilit. Philos. (1870) iv. 71 What I have called his [sc. Mill's] ‘societarianism’ would have been superfluous.
1935 W. S. Jenkins Pro-slavery Thought in Old South v. 227 Pro-slavery and antislavery theory definitely divided between individualism and societarianism.
2002 W. O. Coleman Econ. & Its Enemies ii. 46 Societarianism amounts to an intuition as to the overriding importance and value of ‘society’.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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