col·lec·tiv·ism

(kə-lĕk′tə-vĭz′əm)

The principles or system of ownership and control of the means of production and distribution by the people collectively, usually under the supervision of a government.

col·lec′tiv·ist n.

col·lec′tiv·is′tic adj.

col·lec′tiv·is′ti·cal·ly adv.

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ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:

Noun	1.	collectivist - a person who belongs to the political left leftist, left-winger pinko, pink - a person with mildly leftist political views socialist - a political advocate of socialism
Adj.	1.	collectivist - subscribing to the socialistic doctrine of ownership by the people collectively collectivistic, state-controlled, collectivised, collectivized socialist, socialistic - advocating or following the socialist principles; "socialistic government"

Translations

коллективист коллективистка коллективистский

collectivist

[kəˈlektɪvɪst] ADJ → colectivista

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collectivist

[kəˈlɛktɪvɪst] adj [ideal, group] → collectiviste

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collectivist

n → Kollektivist(in) m(f)

adj → kollektivistisch

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He argues that exploring practitioner memories from a collectivist perspective can recover various missions, motivations, and priorities of English teachers.

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and German participants (two individualist cultures) were higher in field independence than were the Russian and Malaysian participants (two collectivist cultures).

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However, individualist and collectivist values may be converging across the generations to some extent due to the general trend of urbanization and nucleation of families.

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Reflective of Asian collectivist culture, findings showed that happiness revolved around a peaceful and united family and economic sufficiency came in second.

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Despite the widespread research that can increase shopping trip frequency, such as the effects of time pressure and impulse buying tendency (Lin and Chen, 2013), The Effects of Demographic Variables on Measuring Perceived Risk (Mitchell and Boustani, 2015), The influence of gender, age, education on shopping responsibilities (Flagg, Sen, Kilgore, and Locher, 2014), Evaluating the performance of demographic targeting using gender (Jansen, Moore, and Carman, 2013) There is none of the research on multi-ethnic group variation in shopping trip frequency especially in a collectivist society.

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The Culturally Engaging Campus Environments (CECE) Project developed a survey for undergraduates and graduate students that measures nine characteristics of an inclusive campus: cultural familiarity, culturally relevant knowledge, cultural community service, meaningful cross-cultural engagement, cultural validation, collectivist cultural orientations, humanized educational environments, proactive philosophies and holistic support.

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Nevertheless, government elites skillfully use repetitious talking points to propagandize the public into submitting to their notions of collectivist utopia.

The individual vs. the collective

Several of the artist's public sculptures will be on display at Louisiana, as will a number of his early experimental paintings and seminal graphic works, highlighting the tension between individual creation and the collectivist politics that informed Gernes's practice.

"Poul Gernes: I Cannot Do It Alone--Want to Join In?"

First, we demonstrate experimentally that collectivist orientation has an impact on fundamental beliefs about the nature of exchange.

Collectivist values, exchange ideology and psychological contract preference