...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...

...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...

...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,...

...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...

...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...

...Thatcher, was alluding to the importance of individuals in the formation of societies when she insisted, "There is no such thing as society; there are individual men and women, and there are families." Intricacies of social organizations in their last analysis say more about individuals...

...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...

...interference. 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...

...not involve actual credence. Lionel Trilling, Beyond Culture, 1965 (true of the personal life too) There is no such thing as Society. There are individual men and women, and there are families. And no government can do anything except through people, and people must look after...

...a very simple reason. As Mrs Thatcher famously informed readers of Woman's Own in 1987, 'You know, there is no such thing as society. There are individual men and women, and there are families.' Despite the dominant influence of individualism, the belief that the idea of responsibility...