The stress was on the individual as part of a larger social whole.

The family, or tribe of families, became the largest social whole.

An 'inside' story can also be told in terms which subordinate individuals to some larger social whole.

You would be getting only a fragmented view of a larger whole.

No matter how much money the stars got, talent was becoming a smaller part of a larger whole.

Her death was a calculated chess move, one part of a larger whole.

In short, regional integration is the joining of individual states within a region into a larger whole.

These are truths, but each is only a part of the larger whole.

Each of these was a homoeomery, the small parts being the same as the large whole.

But I do want to feel they're part of a larger whole.