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Relevant to a Sustainability Course or Curriculum

Isms

What do terms with “ism” at the end have in common? According to the Free Dictionary, an ism represents a distinctive doctrine, system or theory. Each “ism” can also be considered a way of making decisions or organizing behavior based on a distinctive worldview. What follows is a list of “isms” that govern behavior in ways that influence the sustainability of a society. As sustainability is in one sense a social movement that is a battleground for different worldviews, many of these isms are bound to come up in class discussions and readings. A blue underlined number is a link to an article or book that provides a sustainability-relevant introduction to that ism.

Back	Anthropocentrism	Capitalism 7	Collectivism	Next
	Colonialism/ Neocolonialism	Communalism	Communism
	Communitarianism	Democratism/ Democracy	Ecofeminism 8
	Eco-Localism 9	Egalitarianism	Empiricism
	Ethnocentrism	Fatalism	Fundamentalism
	Holism	Humanitarianism	Individualism
	Isolationism	Libertarianism	Materialism
	Multiculturalism	Nihilism 10	Pragmatism
	Socialism 9	Terrorism	Utilitarianism

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