popularists

Noun

popularist (plural popularists)

1. An artist or composer whose work appeals to popular tastes.
   • Three composers in the study are undoubted popularists.1954, Dennison Nash, The American Composer: A Study in Social-psychology
2. One who adapts and popularizes a subject.
   • Here, she has no greater debt than to Sylvester Graham, originally a New Jersey minister who found a more successful calling as the popularist of what his magnum opus summarily entitled The New Science of Human Life.2011, James D. Faubion, An Anthropology of Ethics, page 227
3. On who advocates populism.
   • The so-called 'popularists' attempted to exploit the urge of the masses of the Western Ukrainian lands for enlightenment and cultural education in their native tongue in order to strengthen the dominant position of the Ukrainian bourgeoisie.1986, I͡U︡riĭ I͡U︡rʹevich Kondufor, A Short History of the Ukraine, page 126
4. One who explains social phenomena in terms of popular responses and habits.
   • Despite the paucity of early psychological research on the consequences of job transfers, popularists have been quick to point to the negative consequences of transfer: heart attacks in men, depression in women, maladjustment in children.2012, Adrian Furnham, The Psychology of Behaviour at Work: The Individual in the Organization

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