Paradoxes of American Individualism1 |
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| Authors: | Claude S Fischer |
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| Institution: | 1. Department of Sociology, 410 Barrows Hall, UC Berkeley, Berkeley, California 94720‐1980;2. e‐mail: . |
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| Abstract: | I point to contradictions in American individualism not unlike those suggested by Robin M. Williams Jr. I go on to suggest how twenty‐first‐century sociologists might better understand this aspect of American exceptionalism: not as an egoistic, asocial individualism, but as a covenantal, social voluntarism. |
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| Keywords: | American society culture exceptionalism individualism Robin M Williams Jr voluntarism |
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