collectivist
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- adjective
- /kəˈlɛktɪvɪst/
- In collectivist cultures, the primary purpose of resolving conflict is to bring harmony to the group.
- collectivist culture
- collectivist orientation
- collectivist society
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Watch on YouTubeIt's different because when you live in a more collectivist culture, the culture drives you.
- It's different because when you live in a more collectivist culture, the culture drives you.
- Here's the prediction that I think what you're telling me makes about your worldview, that it was suboptimal to think in a more collectivist way.
Examples
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Indeed, this article defends a collectivist and social approach to copyright, based on Lockean principles of ownership and knowledge creation.
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It's different because when you live in a more collectivist culture, the culture drives you.
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So long as we have an increasingly urban culture, we will have an increasingly collectivist governance.
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However, avoidance may have a more positive outcome for collectivist Asian Americans.
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Despite industrialization and economic prosperity, traditional societies tend to maintain their collectivist tendencies.
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The U.S. participants were as horizontally collectivist as their Taiwanese and Argentine counterparts.
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You see contrasts between, say, child rearing practices and collectivist versus individualist cultures.
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In individualist worldviews, personal needs and goals take precedence; in collectivist worldviews, they may be secondary to the goals of a group.
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An excerpt from a Samoan poem poignantly captures the collectivist orientation: 'I' does not exist.
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In a collectivist society, people often make decisions based on what is best for the group rather than for themselves.
Synonyms
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3.9
Shared by all members of a group acting together
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3.9
Shared by all people in a group, like a garden or food
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7.6
Valuing the community more than the individual
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Putting the group before the individual
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7.6
Treats a group as one whole instead of separate people
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7.9
About living in a group where people share things and work together
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Putting the group's needs before each person's own wants
People support each other and share benefits equally
Antonyms
Compounds
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A political idea that wants to end the state and private ownership, making factories and land owned by workers
How Collectivist
Surface Forms
Morphology
collectivist = collective (transparent) = collect + ive + ist
Formed by 'collective' + the productive suffix '-ist'; 'collective' is common and '-ist' signals an adherent/relating-to meaning.
Etymology
Collectivist comes from the root collect meaning 'gather' and the word collective meaning 'group', so it describes ideas or policies that put the group's needs before the individual's.