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Individualism And Collectivism
Harry C. Triandis
- 01 Jan 1995
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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors describe how the terms individualism and collectivism are used by an evergrowing legion of users and no one is better equipped to understand how these terms are used.
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Abstract: Originally published in Contemporary Psychology: APA Review of Books, 1996, Vol 41(6), 540–542. To truly follow cross-cultural psychology one must know how the terms, individualism and collectivism, are used by an ever-growing legion of users. According to the reviewer, no one is better equipped to
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Individualism and collectivism: Theory, method, and applications.
TL;DR: Theoretical and methodological approaches to the study of collectivism and individualism have been proposed by as discussed by the authors, with a focus on individualism and collectivism as dimensions of social change.