Examples of self-reliance in the following topics:
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- According to the Institute for Local Self-Reliance, the United States grew 2.1% per year between 1967 and 2000 while the recycling industry enjoyed, on average, an 8.3% increase in employment and a 12.7% increase in sales per year.
- (Institute for Local Self-Reliance, ‘Waste to Health – Recycling Means Business') This means that for every 10,000 tons of waste that's recycled, around 36 new jobs are created.
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- Individualists promote the exercise of one's goals and desires and so value independence and self-reliance while opposing external interference upon one's own interests by society or institutions such as the government.
- Individualism is also associated with artistic and bohemian interests and lifestyles where there is a tendency towards self-creation and experimentation as opposed to tradition or popular mass opinions and behaviors, and so also with humanist philosophical positions and ethics.
- Emerson's greatest expression of individualism is contained in his essay Self-Reliance.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson was an important American philosopher of the nineteenth century who espoused many tenets of individualism in his work, particularly in his essay Self-Reliance.
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- They had faith that man is at his best when truly "self-reliant" and independent.
- His work includes such well-known essays as "Self-Reliance," "The Over-Soul," "Circles," "The Poet," and "Experience."
- Individualists promote the exercise of one's goals and desires and so value independence and self-reliance while opposing external interference upon one's own interests by society or institutions such as the government.
- Individualism is associated with artistic and bohemian interests and lifestyles in which there is a tendency towards self-creation and experimentation as opposed to tradition or popular mass opinions and behaviors, and also with humanist philosophical positions and ethics.
- His essay "Self-Reliance" thoroughly emphasizes the need for each individual to avoid conformity and false consistency and to follow his or her own instincts and ideas.
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- Kohn found that lower class parents were more likely to emphasize conformity in their children whereas middle-class parents were more likely to emphasize creativity and self-reliance.
- Ellis et. al. proposed and found that parents value conformity over self-reliance in children to the extent that conformity superseded self-reliance as a criterion for success in their own endeavors.
- In other words, tracks can turn into a type of self-fulfilling prophecy: you may start out at the same level as someone in a higher track, but by the time you have completed the lower track you will have become like the other students in your track.
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- Individualists promote the exercise of one's goals and desires and so value independence and self-reliance while opposing external interference upon one's own interests by society or institutions such as the government.
- Civil liberties are rights and freedoms that provide an individual specific rights such as the freedom from slavery and forced labor, freedom from torture and death, the right to liberty and security, right to a fair trial, the right to defend one's self, the right to own and bear arms, the right to privacy, freedom of conscience, freedom of expression, freedom of assembly and association, and the right to marry and have a family.
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- A self-described progressive and reformer, Hoover saw the presidency as a vehicle for improving the conditions of all Americans by encouraging public-private cooperation, which he termed "volunteerism".
- Hoover saw volunteerism as preferable to governmental coercion or intervention, both of which he felt opposed the American ideals of individualism and self-reliance.
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- Ecocentric supporters believe that low-impact technology and self-reliance are more desirable than technological control over nature.
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- Slaves, on the other hand, were considered uneducated, unenlightened, and simple people who could not be expected to understand the virtues of self-reliance or political freedom; they instead needed the guidance of the white farmer to manage their lives and affairs.
- His republican worldview stressed the austerity, self-reliance, and independence engendered by small-scale agricultural farming but neglected to highlight and justify the brutal and coercive system of chattel slavery that formed the basis for large-scale plantation production.
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- Furthermore, Hamilton and the Federalists believed that the values of successful industrialists—self-reliance, autonomy, innovation, and entrepreneurship—were the bedrock on which the national political system should be modeled.
- As opposed to his Democratic-Republican contemporaries who espoused agriculture and farming as the backbone of the American economy, Hamilton believed that overall commercial development would foster the republican virtues of self-reliance and autonomy, as well as American independence in the world economic system.
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- Uncertainty avoidance is the extent to which members of an organization or society strive to avoid uncertainty by reliance on social norms, rituals, and bureaucratic practices to alleviate the unpredictability of future events.
- Charismatic or value-based: Characterized by integrity and decisiveness; performance-oriented by appearing visionary, inspirational, and self-sacrificing; can also be toxic and allow for autocratic commanding.
- Self-protective: Characterized by self-centeredness, face-saving, and procedural behavior capable of inducing conflict when necessary, while being conscious of status.