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What does paternalism mean?

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Noun
  1. The treatment of people in a fatherly manner, especially by caring for them but sometimes being stern with them.
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The bureaucratic paternalism and social control techniques of the employers are briefly exemplified.
The cases reek of legal paternalism and legal moralism but little reference is made to ideas of personal autonomy or sovereignty.
Feelings of frustrated paternalism have been coursing through me and partner lately.
He gets a job working for IBM, the acme of corporate, conformist paternalism, the antithesis of bohemianism.
But that kind of approach strikes us as disagreeably de haut en bas now, and paternalism isn't really a vote-winner any more.
And people said left wing media was doomed because of arrogance and paternalism!

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