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