Meaning of culturalism | Babel Free

Definitions

A belief system that emphasizes the role of culture.

countable, uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“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, […]”

“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.”

CEFR level