collectivism

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Within these communities exists an informal collectivism, an ebb and flow of residents, of families, of neighbors coming together at farmer’s markets, in city parks and common spaces, in a tacit recognition of shared values.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 10, 2025

"In societies that value collectivism, such as in Iceland and Japan, these baths are not mere places for relaxation but also for building social connections," says Jabe Brown of Melbourne Functional Medicine.

From Salon • Dec. 16, 2023

Though it scores high, as a nation, on measures of cultural collectivism, China’s 1.4 billion people are more than just a single culture.

From Scientific American • Feb. 28, 2022

The message should be that staying home can save lives—and perhaps even just that little bit of altruism and collectivism could help us all get through this, together.

From Slate • Apr. 13, 2020

We find this embodying two distinct, and apparently contradictory, tendencies—one towards greater individual freedom, the other towards a constant extension of the principle of cooperation, or collectivism.

From The Library and Society Reprints of Papers and Addresses by Bostwick, Arthur Elmore