In short, Bush's approach is more in sync with today's high-tech, more-power-to-the-individual ethos.
But despite these intriguing preliminary results, it appears that whether you get a cup of tea basically boils down to your individual lab ethos.
Both were determined, in their own way, to counter the cult of the individual and the ethos that there was no such thing as society.
Paradoxically, Professor Melloni said, the crisis in American Catholicism appears to be partly a result of a departure among the ranks of its leaders from an essential element of the American ethos: individual responsibility.
For example, Thomas Luckmann, a German-American sociologist, described the sacred in modern society as that "strata of significance to which everyday life is ultimately referred"; and this definition includes such themes as "the autonomous individual" and "the mobility ethos".
Her solution was grand, in ways that could sound like monomania: she urged on Americans "a new politics of meaning," a "new ethos of individual responsibility and caring," a "new definition of civil society".
Still, justice demands an egalitarian ethos, and individual conduct in conformity with it.
To this extent, Nativism stands against the ethos of individual initiative.
Sixteen of the 43 forces had no systems in place to prioritise calls from known victims or to prepare emergency response officers, and HMIC blamed many of the failings on the culture and ethos of individual officers.
Exercised properly, this experimental ethos allows individuals to arrive at a common good.
Individuals internalize the egalitarian ethos and are guided by it in their economic choices, and hence will not be disposed to bargain hard for extra pay and benefits in exchange for making efficient contributions to the economy.
