What's the difference between collectivism and individualism?

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.

Individualism


Definition:

  • (n.) The quality of being individual; individuality; personality.
  • (n.) An excessive or exclusive regard to one's personal interest; self-interest; selfishness.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) It is supposed that delta-sleep peptide along with other oligopeptides is one of the factors determining individual animal resistance to emotional stress, which is supported by significant delta-sleep peptide increase in hypothalamus in stable rats.
  • (2) Standardization is possible after correction by the protein content of each individual section.
  • (3) Although the mean values for all hemodynamic variables between the two placebo periods were minimally changed, the differences in individual patients were striking.
  • (4) We examined the karyotype in five individuals of roe-deer (Capreolus capreolus), coming from Southern Moravia.
  • (5) The effects of sessions, individual characteristics, group behavior, sedative medications, and pharmacological anticipation, on simple visual and auditory reaction time were evaluated with a randomized block design.
  • (6) We have amended and added to Fabian's tables giving a functional assessment of individual masticatory muscles.
  • (7) Five probes of high specificity to individual chromosomes (chromosomes 3, 11, 17, 18 and X) were hybridized in situ to metaphase chromosomes of different individuals.
  • (8) Parents of subjects at the experimental school were visited at home by a community health worker who provided individualized information on dental services and preventive strategies.
  • (9) The absorption of ingested Pb is modified by its chemical and physical form, by interaction with dietary minerals and lipids and by the nutritional status of the individual.
  • (10) A progressively more precise approach to identifying affected individuals involves measuring body weight and height, then energy intake (or expenditure) and finally the basal metabolic rate (BMR).
  • (11) Both apertures were repaired with great caution using individual sutures without resection of the hernial sac.
  • (12) We have investigated the increase in the spcDNA population upon cycloheximide treatment of individual sequences, which are found to amplify differentially.
  • (13) However, the groups often paused less and responded faster than individual rats working under identical conditions.
  • (14) Microelectrodes were used to measure the oxygen tension (PO2) profile within individual spheroids at different stages of growth.
  • (15) In this phase the educational practices are vastly determined by individual activities which form the basis for later regulations by the state.
  • (16) In the case of nonspecific loading highly trained individuals may have low VT values close to the level characteristic for normal subjects.
  • (17) These data, then, indicate that the ability to produce C3NeF autoantibody is present from the time of birth in normal individuals.
  • (18) A mean difference for individual patients between the first and second recording within 5 mm Hg was observed in 49.3% and 52.1% of patients for 24-hour systolic and diastolic blood pressure, respectively.
  • (19) Patients served as their individual control based on observations of at least 1 year before the study.
  • (20) However in the deciduous teeth from which the successional tooth germs were removed, the processes of tooth resorption was very different in individuals, the difference between tooth resorption in normal occlusal force and in decreased occlusal force was not clear.