The Independence Paradox

Rebels in Groups: Dissent, Deviance, Difference and Defiance

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 201-218

  Salvatore, Jessica ^a,c   Prentice, Deborah A ^b  

^a AMHERST COLLEGE   (United States)

^b PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c MOUNT HOLYOKE COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

'The collective,' from founder of objectivism a philosophy of radical individualism; Correlates of independent self construal; Independent self construal and cognitive revolution of mid 1970s; Individual differences in independent self construal relating meaningfully and predictably to individual and social functioning; Markus and kitayama, saying within any given culture dominant ideas manifest in how culture members come to perceive themselves; Rand's collective to north american societies acts of independence, a paradoxical status; Rand's disciples, 'organize an objectivist gang' the galts, promoting and enacting individualism; Self regulation of independence; The collective, illustration of what we refer to as the independence paradox; The independence paradox

Indexed keywords

EID: 84886466213     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781444390841.ch11     Document Type: Chapter

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