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(transitive) To make biological; to assimilate into a biological framework or context..
In the "nature vs. nurture" scientific debate, however, those seeking a biological explanation for social phenomena were losing the ideological battle. According to Healey, a political struggle opened up against "biologizing" scientists, charging that to search for the basis of social ills in individual biology was a form of Menshevik idealism.
Most important with regard to the healing capacity of the king's touch, human bodies have the ability to biologize experience. They have the capacity to incorporate or embody events as they are experienced[…]
Consequently, social scientists at turns reify institutions, biologize social categories, anthropomorphize offices, and mentalize corporate groups.
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Biologize means (transitive) To make biological; to assimilate into a biological framework or context..
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In the "nature vs. nurture" scientific debate, however, those seeking a biological explanation for social phenomena were losing the ideological battle. According to Healey, a political struggle opened up against "biologizing" scientists, charging that to search for the basis of social ills in individual biology was a form of Menshevik idealism.
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