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culturalism

culturalism noun: a belief system that emphasizes the role of culture.

Noun

culturalism (countable and uncountable, plural culturalisms)

  1. A belief system that emphasizes the role of culture.
    • Beauvoir herself provides a working definition of “culturalism”: No biological, psychological, or economic fate determines the figure that the human female presents in society; it is civilization as a whole that produces this creature, […]1995, Germain Kopaczynski, No Higher Court, University of Scranton Press, →ISBN, page 2
    • To fail to situate gender identity within the context of other systems of power is to risk falling into a form of culturalism or 'associational mode' of thinking where all social inequalities are considered primarily as issues of recognition and identity formation and not as systemically...2008, Lois McNay, Against Recognition, page 56

Forms of culturalism

pluralculturalisms

Origin of culturalism

From cultural + -ism.

Questions about culturalism

What does culturalism mean?
Culturalism means a belief system that emphasizes the role of culture.
What part of speech is culturalism?
Culturalism is a noun.
What is the plural of culturalism?
The plural of culturalism is culturalisms.

Words near culturalism in the dictionary

  1. culturalisations
  2. culturalise
  3. culturalised
  4. culturalises
  5. culturalising
  6. culturalism
  7. culturalisms
  8. culturalist
  9. culturalistic
  10. culturalists
  11. culturalities

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