Meaning of biologize | Babel Free

Definitions

To make biological; to assimilate into a biological framework or context.

transitive

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Examples

“In the "nature vs. nurture" scientific debate⟳, however, those seeking a biological explanation for social phenomena were losing the ideological battle. According to Healey, a political struggle⟳ opened up against "biologizing" scientists, charging that to search⟳ for the basis of social ills in individual biology was a form⟳ of Menshevik idealism.”

“Most important with regard to the healing capacity of the king's touch⟳, human bodies have⟳ the ability to biologize experience⟳. They have⟳ the capacity to incorporate or embody events as they are experienced[…]”

“Consequently, social scientists at turns reify institutions, biologize social categories, anthropomorphize offices, and mentalize corporate groups.”

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