ideologies
type: Concept
related: individualism

cultural theory
type: Concept
narrower: individualism

individualism
type: Concept
related: conceptual issues in multicultural psychology
related: culture, society, and popular media
related: theories of ethics
related: ideologies
related: law and political science
related: social life
related: organizational behavior
related: society (political science)
broader: cultural theory
definition: Individualism is largely understood today as a normative doctrine holding the autonomy of individuals to be the final object of moral and political life. The term was originally descriptive, however, invented in the early nineteenth century to describe the atomization of European society that attended democracy's emergence after the collapse of the ancien régime. [Source: The Encyclopedia of Political Science; Individualism]

conceptual issues in multicultural psychology
type: Concept
related: individualism

culture, society, and popular media
type: Concept
related: individualism

theories of ethics
type: Concept
related: individualism

law and political science
type: Concept
related: individualism

social life
type: Concept
related: individualism

organizational behavior
type: Concept
related: individualism

society (political science)
type: Concept
related: individualism

concepts
type: Collection
type: ConceptGroup
member: individualism