Most people living in Western, developed countries are psychologically ... he says. "So there's no individual rights or anything like that." Marriage within extended families helped keep wealth ...

The mirror, diary, memoir, autobiography, portrait, love letter and even the fork represent practical manifestations of one of the most fundamental developments in Western culture: the growth of ...

In Western Society the ideology of individualism is not seen as inherently negative but rather is instead a moral stance that is praised and often encouraged. While there is a difference in ...

Western individualism. Social psychologist Geert Hofstede developed cultural dimensions theory, which states that a society’s cultural dimensions can impact the values of its people, thereby ...

Let me quote Ingold here (1999, p. 407) because he nicely compares Western individualism with band individualism: "The Western individual is a self-contained, rational subject, locked within the ...