Situationism
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Situationism is a noun meaning (psychology) A school of thought which holds that personality is more influenced by external factors than by internal traits or motivations.
Meaning
(psychology) A school of thought which holds that personality is more influenced by external factors than by internal traits or motivations.
More Meanings
- (politics) A mid-20th-century offshoot of Marxism, influenced by avant-garde art movements.
Example Sentences
The situationists meant to define a stance, not an ideology, because they saw all ideologies as alienations, transformations of subjectivity into objectivity, desire into a power that rendered the individual powerless: “There is no such thing as situationism,” they said for years.
Word Forms
- situationisms
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include personalism, structuralism, psychologism, interactionism, socionics, positionality.
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