What does popularist mean?
Popularist means Reflecting popular taste and opinion..
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Reflecting popular taste and opinion..
There have been others, of course, antagonistic to established authority, whose philosophy has been anything but popularist, but it is not the popularist basis of Benn's antiauthoritarianism that is peculiar.
They based their honour killings on a hadith which used the Arabic word for honour in a word play which gave the reader a choice – to favour the more popularist and customary notion of male control over women or to follow the more pro-woman emancipatory approach which gave women control over their own honour and sexual lives, answerable only to God.
The 'Love Boat' was popularist, light entertainment but the impact was significant (Schwichtenberg, 1984).
She threw herself into making their childhood different from hers and Albert's, taking them on excursion which were sometimes highbrow — the theatre and opera, plus numerous recitals and plays performed at Windsor — but were equally likely to be popularist.
The rise of the popularist approach reshaped the shared assumptions and agreed procedure of learning during the 17th century.
Three composers in the study are undoubted popularists.
Blitzstein discerns a pervasive debt to impressionism among these folkloric primitivists, and he refers at times to Bloch explicitly as a “post-impressionist” (whereas he sometimes places Copland among the popularists)
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.
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Popularist means Reflecting popular taste and opinion..
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There have been others, of course, antagonistic to established authority, whose philosophy has been anything but popularist, but it is not the popularist basis of Benn's antiauthoritarianism that is peculiar.
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