Parochialism is the state of mind whereby one focuses on small sections of an issue rather than considering its wider context.
Events, groups and decisions within a parish are based locally — sometimes taking little heed of what is going on in the wider Church.
Subsidiarity is an organizing principle that matters ought to be handled by the smallest, lowest or least centralized competent authority.
The term may also be applied to decisions and events that are considered to be trivial in the grand scheme of things but that may be overemphasized in a smaller community, such as disputes between neighbors.
[5] In 1969 Everett Carll Ladd published Ideology in America – his study of political attitudes in the Greater Hartford, Connecticut area.