What's the difference between collectivism and collectivist?

Collectivism


Definition:

  • (n.) The doctrine that land and capital should be owned by society collectively or as a whole; communism.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) People don’t have sex within only one borough – an example of why balkanisation is more expensive than collectivism The immediate anxiety was that elected officials are often not public health experts: you might get a very enlightened council, who understood the needs of the disenfranchised and prioritised them; or you might get a bunch of puffed-up moralists who spent their syphilis budget on a new aqua aerobics provision for the overweight.
  • (2) Formerly Belgium's Catholic hospitals prospered within a system based on collectivized financing and individualistic service delivery patterns.
  • (3) This break with collectivism appears to support the coalition's message of self-reliance.
  • (4) At one point, I hear him claiming that the current Labour leadership "doesn't understand collectivism".
  • (5) The consequences of hunkering down and seeing this as an individual problem will be that it simply worsens and affects more individuals; before innovation, it will take collectivism – medical, political and social.
  • (6) Is this sort of ethical collectivism – whereby those living today share guilt for the past crimes of those they belong to by dint of their nation, race and so on – just, or productive?
  • (7) You could say that it all began when Tony Blair brought forth his New Labour project, which, by his own admission, owed as much to the philosophy of Margaret Thatcher as it did to ideas of collectivism and working-class solidarity.
  • (8) Labour proposed collectivism over individualism and a politics that people could be part of.
  • (9) Although recent American attention has been largely focused on autonomy as an important value for quality of life in old age, there is real danger in emphasizing personal independence at the expense of community or collectivism.
  • (10) There’s a lot of anarcho-collectivism in the fellowship around abstinence-based recovery.
  • (11) Collectivism has been trumped by consumerism, common responsibilities by individual rights.
  • (12) In this process, Galton's liberal views concerning individual freedom and opportunity for full development became transformed into their dialectic--totalitarian--collectivism--a vision of an ideal state which did not come into being.
  • (13) The modern characterisation of this class is that its members are insecure and shiftless – lacking either the job security and collectivism of the old working class, or the capital of the traditional middle class.
  • (14) This pursuit of collectivism, in the face of decades of rampant individualism, was always one of the more radical aspects of Corbyn’s leadership.
  • (15) The reason the government assigns jobs is very simple: As part of strict control over all kinds of resources under its collectivism system, the government researches how many people are needed in each industry and location, and assigns people accordingly.
  • (16) With one lone vote, we can't expect Seattle to collectivize Starbucks and Amazon anytime soon.
  • (17) Neither is this to suggest that these places were working- class Gardens of Eden where everyone was greeted with a cheery salute and a tip of the cap and lived out a noble and higher existence based on collectivism and the works of Charles Dickens.
  • (18) The statistical comparison of two collectivs of patients showed, that with routine use of indrect binocular ophthalmoscopy and renunciation of drainage of the subretinal fluid (49% of the cases) the curing rate of the cases which were operated with a combination of cryopexie and plombage raised from 75% to 96%.
  • (19) As internationalists who believe in solidarity and collectivism we should campaign unequivocally to remain a member.” Apart from Leslie, the shadow home secretary, Yvette Cooper, and the shadow education secretary, Tristram Hunt, have said they will not serve.
  • (20) In fact, Wales speaks a language of corporate collectivism that would not be out of place in Rand's novels.

Collectivist


Definition:

  • (n.) An advocate of collectivism.
  • (a.) Relating to, or characteristic of, collectivism.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) This tendency to blame the victim appears to transcend fundamental philosophic differences which have traditionally distinguished some collectivist and individualist societies.
  • (2) "The speed with which the Labour party eclipsed the Liberal party in the early part of the last century was, in large part, because Labour better understood the need for such collectivist responses, especially at a time of war, and an internally divided Liberal party did not."
  • (3) This slump has cost many more jobs under America's untrammelled capitalism than in relatively collectivist Germany.
  • (4) They base their ire on neighbourhoods that have been radically altered, a state that often seems to operate according to its own distant logic, and the absence of the kind of collectivist politics they feel Labour has left behind as it chases the votes of people in supposedly affluent marginals.
  • (5) Vietnamese mental health needs are best understood in terms of the family unit, which is extended, collectivistic, and patriarchal.
  • (6) Wilde takes no prisoners from the very outset: “The chief advantage that would result from the establishment of socialism is, undoubtedly, the fact that socialism would relieve us from that sordid necessity of living for others.” It’s a very Wildean, quasi-epigrammatic reversal – the reader expects something worthy, collectivist and altruistic, instead he gets something that’s irreverent, individualistic and apparently selfish.
  • (7) The SNP asserts an elemental Scottish difference in political psyche – more collectivist, more egalitarian.
  • (8) There will be loyalty, but they will not be pushovers: conservatism is not known to attract those with a collectivist mindset.
  • (9) In her commentary on Rothman's essay, British sociologist Margaret Stacey contrasts her country's collectivist approach to health needs with the American capitalist approach, and warns that the new reproductive options must be evaluated in terms of their impact on women and children.
  • (10) Comparisons are drawn from differing degrees of individualist and collectivist idealogies between the two countries and analysis is further developed through use of the concepts of equity, uniformity and public accountability.
  • (11) Neoliberalism has always been, in part, about changing the calculations that people make by altering the balance of incentives and risks in their daily lives, making individual solutions to their problems easier, ruling collectivist solutions – such as nationalisation or secondary picketing – out of bounds.
  • (12) Though accused of having been a fascist, he was a Catholic corporatist committed to finding a "third way" between collectivist communism and the free market.
  • (13) Who remains sceptical about collectivist, non-market ways of organising society?
  • (14) "In a properly-run democracy governments exist to reconcile collective action and individual aspiration," Salmond said, and he provided a host of examples - Scottish Water, Royal Mail, youth unemployment, the Commonwealth Games, personal care, tuition fees - to show that Scotland is more collectivist than Westminster.
  • (15) It also explores implications of the analysis for expanding our understanding of the importance of value dimensions in comparative gerontology, and suggests ways of integrating individualistic and collectivistic ideals in gerontological policies and programs.
  • (16) Geriatric care and other welfare services more directly reflect the differences between collectivist and individualist ideologies in the two countries.
  • (17) Notwithstanding the predominance of an individualist ideology in the United States the provision of ESRD services is based on a collectivist format.
  • (18) Our welfare model is thus based upon ideals deriving from both individualistic and collectivistic philosophies, just as Scandinavia's mixed economy is.
  • (19) After a brief analysis of the competing, liberal (conservative) and collectivist (socialist), objectives, the nature of the private health care sector in Britain is described and it is shown that growth has faltered due to cost containment problems.
  • (20) Contrary to the stereotype of a collectivist social democracy from the boardroom to the shop floor, company owners are much better than their UK counterparts at amassing huge fortunes.

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