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The Desire for a Home: Individualism in Louis L'Amour's Dark Canyon

open access: yes, 2023
Individualism is a hallmark descriptor of American culture. Frederick Jackson Turner’s seminal Frontier Thesis argued that such individualism has its roots in the frontier.
Redmer, Guy
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Human Security, Individualism and Collectivism [PDF]

open access: yes, 2023
The quest for human security has pitted the individual against the collective throughout history. Individualism and collectivism are two competing philosophical and social movements that have divided the world for centuries and trace their origin back to
Ashok Natarajan
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Methodological Individualism and Methodological Localism: A Discussion with Daniel Little

open access: yes, 2023
This chapter takes the form of a discussion between the editors of this volume and Daniel Little regarding the relationship between methodological individualism and methodological localism.
Little D., Di Iorio F., Bulle N.
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An apology of individualism [PDF]

open access: yesSociološki Pregled, 2009
The text intends to question the validity of individualistic approach within the framework of the international economic crisis. The author claims that the chaos in the world economy is the result of the distortion of the principles of functioning self ...
Lakićević Dragan D.
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The relationship between measures of individualism and collectivism and the impact of COVID-19 across nations

open access: yesPublic Health in Practice, 2021
Background: The global COVID-19 pandemic has been characterized by marked variations in prevalence, mortality and case fatality across nations. The available evidence to date suggests that social factors significantly influence these variations.
Ravi Philip Rajkumar
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Contextualism as an important facet of individualism-collectivism: personhood beliefs across 37 national groups [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
Beliefs about personhood are understood to be a defining feature of individualism-collectivism (I-C), but they have been insufficiently explored, given the emphasis of research on values and self-construals.
Didier, N.   +447 more
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Species individualism

open access: yesFrontiers in Ecology and Evolution
There has been a long-standing debate regarding the theory of “Species as Individuals (SAI)” within biological philosophy. Scholars such as Ghiselin, Hull, Mishler, and Brandon have played pivotal roles in defending this theory, demonstrating species as ...
Liang Xu, Liang Xu, Ruipeng Lei
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The nature and significance of Lionel Robbins’ methodological individualism

open access: yesEconomiA, 2018
Lionel Robbins’ definition of economics helped to buttress the centrality that individual choice acquired after the Second World War. This, however, was an unintended consequence of his seminal work.
Thiago Dumont Oliveira   +1 more
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Prosocial behavioural tendencies and orientation towards individualism–collectivism of Greek young adults

open access: yesInternational Journal of Adolescence and Youth, 2017
This study aimed to investigate the prosocial behavioural tendencies of Greek young adults and to examine the relationship between prosocial behavioural tendencies and individualism–collectivism.
Efthymios Lampridis, Donna Papastylianou
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Sovereignty of the Living Individual: Emerson and James on Politics and Religion

open access: yesReligions, 2017
William James and Ralph Waldo Emerson are both committed individualists. However, in what do their individualisms consist and to what degree do they resemble each other?
Stephen S. Bush
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