privatism
nounEtymology From private + -ism.
1
Concern with issues only insofar as they affect one as an individual; self-interest.
- Jane Austen's Emma (1816) illustrates the social novel's association of androgyny with selfish privatism.1990, Camille Paglia, Sexual Personae, Yale University Press, →ISBN, page 441:
- What Habermas describes as ‘family-vocational privatism’, which is similar to what Williams (1983) recognizes as ‘mobile privatism’, can be considered in terms of a category of ‘self-seeking privatism’ (Lodziak, 1996), which is pursued by those for whom capitalism ‘pays off’ in terms of status, financial rewards and so on […]2008, Richard Ronald, The Ideology of Home Ownership […] , Springer, →ISBN, page 66: