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

If the references to race and class feel ritualistic, it’s because the movie largely centers on one woman, a focus that’s profoundly at odds with the political radicalism of the Jane’s collectivism.

From New York Times • Oct. 27, 2022

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

Margaret Emerson Bailey is describing, I think, an actual house and actual people; not so much their lives as what they make out of life in the collectivism that family life enforces.

From When Winter Comes to Main Street by Overton, Grant Martin