That narrow set of experiences, shared by Ms. Kagan and some of the other candidates, may tend to limit the justices' collective outlook and cut them off from the real-world concerns of ordinary people.
Several hypotheses have been put forward to explain this.One, that modernisation promotes individualism, falls at the first hurdle: Japan, an ultra-modern country whose people have retained a collective outlook.
Since, until recently, almost everyone alive was a farmer, it is a reasonable hypothesis that such a collective outlook would dominate a society's culture and behaviour, and might prove so deep-rooted that even now, when most people earn their living in other ways, it helps to define their lives.Mr Talhelm realised that this idea is testable.
In a week where our financial fortunes - as individuals, families and as a country - will be making headlines, the BBC News website, Radio 5 live and BBC Breakfast commissioned the polling organisation Comres to survey our collective economic outlook.
The "collective" mindset encourages the idea of creating art with purpose, and integrating new habits, attitudes, and outlooks meaningfully into one's life.
Instead, he reformulates group intentions within a theory of what he calls interdependence and, in doing so, develops a general outlook on collective responsibility that not only combines individualism and collectivism but places both relationships and social structures at the center of our attention.
Given the demographic composition of the American electorate and its outlook, the GOP courts collective political annihilation by further alienating non-white voters.
Twenty years after its release, Illmatic is widely recognized as a hip-hop benchmark that encapsulates the sociopolitical outlook, enduring spirit, and collective angst of a generation of young men searching for their voice in America.
Gentleman's Dub Club – nine-piece, all-white dub reggae collective led by Johnny Scratchley, co-founder of Outlook, Croatia's annual "soundsystem culture" festival.
And despite the collective efforts being imposed upon us the economic outlook is not rosy – with unemployment remaining high and business confidence low.
The bleak outlook throws into question whether a new collective bargaining agreement can be reached without a work stoppage — the league's first in more than two decades — that could threaten at least the start of the 2011 season.
