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Rugged individualism, derived from individualism, is a term that indicates that an individual is self-reliant and independent from outside, usually state or government assistance.
A microbe revealed the lie of rugged individualism. We are not self-sufficient and independent; we never have been. Our fates are bound together. Taking care of others is taking...
In general, rugged individualism is closely tied to frontiers, not just frontiers of the Old West but economic, social, and political frontiers. Where there are new frontiers to conquer, Americans are more likely to launch out in a spirit of rugged individualism.
Rugged individualism is the belief that individuals should be self-reliant and responsible for their own success or failure, without relying on government assistance or intervention.
The meaning of RUGGED INDIVIDUALISM is the practice or advocacy of individualism in social and economic relations emphasizing personal liberty and independence, self-reliance, resourcefulness, self-direction of the individual, and free competition in enterprise.
We provide evidence on the roots of frontier culture, identifying both selective migration and a causal effect of frontier exposure on individualism. Overall, our findings shed new light on the frontier's persistent legacy of rugged individualism.
In this book the authors look at the political context in which rugged individualism flourishes or declines and offer a balanced assessment of its future prospects. They outline its path from its founding—marked by the Declaration of Independence—to today, focusing on different periods in our history when rugged individualism was thriving ...
The authors emphasize that rugged individualism means to protect individual freedom in the economic sphere and in philosophical and political sense. But as a result of Roosevelt’s victory, the federal government expanded enormously during the New Deal in the name of temporary economic emergency.
we are able to track people across locations and decompose county-level differences in individualism into components coming from migrants versus long-time residents. We find that selective migration was significant, though frontier conditions may have also contributed to rugged individualism.
The frontier cultivated individualism and antipathy to government intervention. These two traits are encapsulated in the notion of “rugged individualism,” popularized by Republican Herbert Hoover in his 1928 presidential campaign. This paper shows that the American frontier gave rise to a persistent culture of rugged individual-ism.