privatism

It has been argued that privatism is on the increase in wealthy western societies.

"I think of it as a kind of privatism that excludes and denigrates the public sphere.

"People are reacting against privatism," says Ms. Leavitt.

It was a trivial habit; it smacked of privatism, of egoizing.

I guess that view is typical of the widespread selfishness and privatism that infect so many of our more affluent New Jersey citizens these days.

An American model of 'privatism'(see Barnekov, Boyle and Rich, 1989) has in recent times been deemed as exportable.

Baltimore lagged behind the other American metropolises because of its culture of privatism and the politicization of its municipal administration.

According to Habermas, a key feature of advanced-capitalism is "privatism", meaning "political abstinence combined with an orientation to career, leisure and consumption" as well as "family orientation".

In sociology, privatism is the concern with or pursuit of one's personal or family interests, welfare, or ideals to the exclusion of broader social issues or relationships.

In Marxist theory, the dictatorship of the proletariat is the intermediate system between capitalism and communism, when the government is in the process of changing the means of ownership from privatism to collective ownership.

"Clinton is more of a believer in proactive government than Bush, who believes in privatism and market forces," said Michael D. Usdan, president of the Institute for Educational Leadership, a Washington-based group.

There are many degrees of privatism, from the advocacy of limited private property over specific kinds of items (personal property) to the advocacy of unrestricted private property over everything; such as in anarcho-capitalism.

Plus a certain feeling, not necessarily Justified, but existing among many student and teaching members of the Institute, that both your teaching and your behavior reflect a certain disaffection, a degree of privatism, of nonaltruism.

Privatism created a closed Irish society, and, while Irish Catholics cooperated in labour organizations for the sake of their family's future, they never shared in the development of a new working-class culture with their old Orange enemies.

This work suggests a strategy informed by an analogical imagination as an answer to the theological question of how to "form a new and inevitably complex theological strategy that will avoid privatism" in religious discourse that embraces pluralism.

A historian argues that the 1970's bridged the revolutionary spirit of the 60's and the Ronald Reagan 80's, as the counterculture went mainstream, the nation's center of gravity shifted to the Sun Belt and public-spirited universalism gave way to the "privatism" of the Me Decade.

In general, privatism is used in the context of radical left-wing politics such as communism, syndicalism, and libertarian socialism, to distinguish ideologies which support private ownership of an economy's means of production and those who desire abolishing it in favour of either collective ownership or common ownership.

For the most part, however, Mr. Miller tells the story of Chicago through the lives of the larger-than-life hustlers, visionaries, eccentrics, entrepreneurs and pols who built the city upon a wind-swept prairie marsh, and turned it into a colossus of privatism and public works, capitalist ambition and reformist zeal.