culturalism

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.

Related terms

• culturalist
• culturalistic

Translations

belief system

• German: Kulturalismus (de) m

Anagrams

• multicursal

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French culturalisme.

Noun

culturalism n (plural culturalisme)

1. culturalism

Declension

Declension of culturalism

	singular		plural
	indefinite articulation	definite articulation	indefinite articulation	definite articulation
nominative/accusative	(un) culturalism	culturalismul	(niște) culturalisme	culturalismele
genitive/dative	(unui) culturalism	culturalismului	(unor) culturalisme	culturalismelor
vocative	culturalismule		culturalismelor

References

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