 | Marilyn Strathern - 1992 - 264 ページ
...life and reason by their acts- one can begin to see how Mrs Thatcher could make the remark she did. There is no such thing as society. There are individual men and women and there are families. notion of a circle of persons enjoying life in their own homes, where decency is axiomatic, in the... | |
 | Gregory Elliott - 1993 - 260 ページ
...atomistic individualism and disdain for reciprocal obligations conveyed in Thatcher's notorious dictum: 'There is no such thing as society. There are individual men and women and there are families.'18 In the case of Hurd's 'active citizen', the New Right critique of the welfare state was... | |
 | David Trevor Evans - 1993 - 372 ページ
...is no substitute for this elemental human instinct' (Thatcher quoted in Campbell 1987a: 168), indeed 'there is no such thing as society, there are individual men and women and their families' (Thatcher quoted in Keay 1987), who 'have a natural instinct for ownership and possession,... | |
 | Marc Raboy - 1996 - 324 ページ
...for commercial radio were allocated to a new "light touch" regulatory body, the Radio Authority. 5. "There is no such thing as society. There are individual men and women, and there are families." (Margaret Thatcher, interviewed in Women's Own, 31 October 1987). References Arthurs, J. 1994. Women... | |
 | Caroline Kelly, Sara Breinlinger - 1996 - 244 ページ
...and the British Psychological Society for permission to reproduce Figure 2.3. Chapter 1 Introduction There is no such thing as society. There are individual men and women, and there are families (Margaret Thatcher, interviewed in Woman's Own, 31 October 1987). Since 1979 in Britain successive... | |
 | Tim Ingold - 1996 - 320 ページ
...to fall. I refer, of course, to the infamous declaration issued by Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher: There is no such thing as society. There are individual men and women and there are families. The statement shows us what has gone disastrously wrong with making an abstract entity out of the particular... | |
 | Adrienne Windhoff-Héritier, Christoph Knill, Susanne Mingers - 1996 - 388 ページ
...solutions in public policy' (Gamble 1988, 124) is abundantly clear in the notorious Thatcher aphorism 'There is no such thing as society. There are individual men and women, and there are families' (quoted in Offe 1990, 10). If citizens were to make a rational choice in individual cases, they had... | |
 | Eric J. Evans, Professor Eric J Evans - 1997 - 154 ページ
...that there was 'no such thing as society' . 1 Her later Memoirs attempted to clarify her meaning that: there are individual men and women and there are families....anything except through people, and people must look to themselves first. It's our first duty to look after ourselves first and then to look after our neighbour.2... | |
 | Stephen Palmer Ved P. Varma - 1997 - 214 ページ
...to haunt Margaret Thatcher when she was Prime Minister of Britain, but she actually went on to say: 'There are individual men and women and there are...anything except through people, and people must look to themselves first. It's our duty to look after ourselves and then to look after our neighbour' (Thatcher,... | |
 | Duncan B. Forrester - 1997 - 296 ページ
...INDIVIDUALISM AND SOCIETY Hayek's thought clearly lies behind Margaret Thatcher's famous statement: 'There is no such thing as society. There are individual men and women and there are families.' 32 His critique of tribalism and of what he calls 'teleocratic societies', bound together by one world-view... | |
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I have a problem, I'll get a grant'. ‘I'm homeless, the government must house me'. They're casting their problem on society. And, you know, there is no such thing as society. There are individual men and women, and there are families. 
