individualistic in German

individualistic in German

What does "individualistic" mean?

1. adj Focused on individual people rather than on society in general.
   "People in individualistic cultures may be more concerned with distributive justice than people in collectivistic cultures because they have such clear-cut notions of individual equity."
2. adj Focused on oneself more than on other people; self-centred.
   "The researchers posit that something they call the “hipster effect” asserts itself in human populations no matter how individualistic we imagine ourselves to be, because it’s individuality itself that sparks conformity."
3. adj Showing behaviour or ideas that are unusual and particular to one person.

individualistic in a sentence

• People in individualistic cultures may be more concerned with distributive justice than people in collectivistic cultures because they have such clear-cut notions of individual equity.
• The researchers posit that something they call the “hipster effect” asserts itself in human populations no matter how individualistic we imagine ourselves to be, because it’s individuality itself that sparks conformity.
• A few examples will demonstrate the cultural basis of individualistic, greedy, and anticooperative behavior.

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