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Definition of communitarianism in English: communitarianismnoun kɛˌmjuːnɪˈtɛːrɪənɪz(ə)mkəˌmjunɪˈtɛriəˌnɪzəm mass noun1A theory or system of social organization based on small self-governing communities. Example sentencesExamples - He did not cling to the ideals of communitarianism, but instead promoted industrial and agricultural development.
- A solution lies in communitarianism: governments facilitating the rules of community engagement, acting as brokers in the relationships and connections between people.
- But like everybody else I was convinced that we had to stop the rapid development of so called communitarianism and a certain expression of fundamentalism.
- Played the right way, this communitarianism can be expanded in Australia to the advantage of our society, including its depressed and frightened minorities, and our economy.
- Recently, Durkheim's writings have been called upon to contribute to the theoretical debate on liberalism and communitarianism.
- He represents the challenge to pluralism both by rising communitarianism and by globalization of culture and capital.
- Nevertheless, the authors do recognise that communitarianism in and of itself is not an adequate institutional foundation for effecting change.
- The aim is to propose an ethic that goes beyond the current labels of liberalism and communitarianism.
- I am sure most of them would not support the communitarianism or the persuasive patriarchy or the muteness against slavery of early Christianity.
- What these areas have in common is that they are communities of collectivism, where relatively strong combined social networks of trade unionism, labourism and communitarianism allow mobilizations in defence of left of centre values.
- For the record, what I do argue in the book is that vesting too much power in a centralised state may not bring out the best in human nature compared with decentralised smaller-scale communitarianism.
- 1.1 An ideology which emphasizes the responsibility of the individual to the community and the social importance of the family unit.
Example sentencesExamples - We need to choose whether we want to adopt competition or cooperation, aggression or nurturance, individualism or communitarianism as we seek to create a better world for all humanity.
- Theories such as communitarianism stress the importance of the family and see failings in the family or in the upbringing of children as the fault and responsibility of individual family members.
- The claim that cosmopolitans underestimate the role that separate communities play in the lives of human beings is a central theme in communitarianism.
- Jane Addams's work can be seen as a basis for a feminist progressive communitarianism that critiques isolated individualism and understands personal identity as necessarily embedded in social and political community.
- It's the difference between individualism and communitarianism.
- The step from I to we, from subject to community, from liberal individualism to postliberal communitarianism is therefore important, but not sufficient.
Derivatives adjective & noun This means confronting the question of whether we view life and liberty, and the point and purpose of human existence, from an individual or a communitarian perspective. Example sentencesExamples - And for that to work, I must adopt a communitarian attitude: my time is truly not my own.
- While all communitarians uphold the importance of the social realm, and in particular of community, they differ in the extent to which their conceptions are attentive to liberty and individual rights.
- This solution reflects a communitarian bias in favor of local government over national regulatory bodies.
- Does the party retain its basic commitment to the free market or has it become more communitarian of late?
Origin Mid 19th century: from community + -arian, on the pattern of words such as unitarian. Definition of communitarianism in US English: communitarianismnounkəˌmjunɪˈtɛriəˌnɪzəmkəˌmyo͞oniˈterēəˌnizəm 1A theory or system of social organization based on small self-governing communities. Example sentencesExamples - Recently, Durkheim's writings have been called upon to contribute to the theoretical debate on liberalism and communitarianism.
- He represents the challenge to pluralism both by rising communitarianism and by globalization of culture and capital.
- Played the right way, this communitarianism can be expanded in Australia to the advantage of our society, including its depressed and frightened minorities, and our economy.
- But like everybody else I was convinced that we had to stop the rapid development of so called communitarianism and a certain expression of fundamentalism.
- What these areas have in common is that they are communities of collectivism, where relatively strong combined social networks of trade unionism, labourism and communitarianism allow mobilizations in defence of left of centre values.
- For the record, what I do argue in the book is that vesting too much power in a centralised state may not bring out the best in human nature compared with decentralised smaller-scale communitarianism.
- I am sure most of them would not support the communitarianism or the persuasive patriarchy or the muteness against slavery of early Christianity.
- He did not cling to the ideals of communitarianism, but instead promoted industrial and agricultural development.
- Nevertheless, the authors do recognise that communitarianism in and of itself is not an adequate institutional foundation for effecting change.
- The aim is to propose an ethic that goes beyond the current labels of liberalism and communitarianism.
- A solution lies in communitarianism: governments facilitating the rules of community engagement, acting as brokers in the relationships and connections between people.
- 1.1 An ideology which emphasizes the responsibility of the individual to the community and the social importance of the family unit.
Example sentencesExamples - The step from I to we, from subject to community, from liberal individualism to postliberal communitarianism is therefore important, but not sufficient.
- Jane Addams's work can be seen as a basis for a feminist progressive communitarianism that critiques isolated individualism and understands personal identity as necessarily embedded in social and political community.
- The claim that cosmopolitans underestimate the role that separate communities play in the lives of human beings is a central theme in communitarianism.
- Theories such as communitarianism stress the importance of the family and see failings in the family or in the upbringing of children as the fault and responsibility of individual family members.
- It's the difference between individualism and communitarianism.
- We need to choose whether we want to adopt competition or cooperation, aggression or nurturance, individualism or communitarianism as we seek to create a better world for all humanity.
Origin Mid 19th century: from community + -arian, on the pattern of words such as unitarian. |