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What does privatism mean?

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Noun
  1. Concern only with issues inasmuch as they affect one as an individual; self-interest. [from 20th c.]
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The rehabilitative ideal strengthens privatism and attempts to deaden movements of political or collective activity.
Neoliberalism with its emphasis on market forces narrows the legitimacy of the public sphere by redefining it around the related issues of privatism, consumption, and safety.
Furthermore, adults' concern for their family's material well-being should not be dismissed as social privatism.
But there's also an element of privatism in the newer, in the contemporary master plan community model.
The communal life embodied in the vine and the branches image presents a strong challenge to contemporary Western models of individual autonomy and privatism.
Jane Austen's Emma illustrates the social novel's association of androgyny with selfish privatism.

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