ENGLISH DICTIONARY

Culturalism

Definition, Meaning & Examples

Part of speech noun

Quick meaning: Culturalism is a noun meaning A belief system that emphasizes the role of culture.

Meaning

A belief system that emphasizes the role of culture.

Example Sentences

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, […]
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 perpetuated forms of discrimination.

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Related dictionary entries include culturalist, culturism, culturist, counterculturism, multiculturism, counterculturalism.

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