culturalism

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English

Etymology

From cultural +‎ -ism.

Noun

culturalism (countable and uncountable, plural culturalisms)

  1. A belief system that emphasizes the role of culture.
    • 1995, Germain Kopaczynski, No Higher Court, University of Scranton Press, →ISBN, page 2:
      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, []
    • 2008, Lois McNay, Against Recognition, page 56:
      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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Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French culturalisme.

Noun

culturalism n (plural culturalisme)

  1. culturalism

Declension

References

  • culturalism in Academia Română, Micul dicționar academic, ediția a II-a, Bucharest: Univers Enciclopedic, 2010. →ISBN