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communitarianism  

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  • Communitarianism, as a coherent body of thought, is a movement that seeks to resolve social problems by strengthening individual commitment to the broader society. The movement began to coalesce in the early 1990s among predominantly U.S. social scientists. [Source: Encyclopedia of Social Problems; Communitarianism]

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