单词 | other-directed |
释义 | other-directedadj. Sociology. Of a person or his or her behaviour: governed or guided by the expectations and example of others, or by external circumstances and trends; socially reliant on external authorities. Also occasionally as n.: a person governed or guided in conformity in this way. Opposed to inner-directed and tradition-directed. ΘΚΠ the mind > will > motivation > persuasion > [adjective] > persuaded > able to be > by the goals or behaviour of others other-directed1950 outer-directed1950 1950 D. Riesman et al. Lonely Crowd i. 9 The society of incipient population decline develops in its typical members a social character whose conformity is insured by their tendency to be sensitized to the expectations and preferences of others. These I shall term other-directed people. 1950 D. Riesman et al. Lonely Crowd i. 23 What is common to all other-directeds is that their contemporaries are the source of direction for the individual. 1973 Listener 17 May 635/1 [J. S.] Mill's fears were those of post-war American sociologists like David Riesman, who saw American society as full of ‘other-directed’ men. 1999 Ethnohistory 46 218 Women's very identity becomes other-directed and overdetermined. Derivatives ˈother-diˈrectedness n. the quality or state of being other-directed. ΘΚΠ the mind > will > motivation > persuasion > [noun] > persuadability > tendency to behave like others other-direction1950 other-directedness1951 1951 Amer. Econ. Rev. 41 1010 Other-directedness emerges in an economy of abundance in capital-rich periods with large productive capacity. 1998 Current Anthropol. 39 432/2 Social psychological studies have noted sex-asymmetric dispositions..toward other-directedness. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1950 |
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