Meaning of family resemblance | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Physical similarities shared between close relatives, especially between parents and children and between siblings.
2. One of a series of overlapping similarities between two or more comparanda.

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Examples

“What does it mean to be part of the racial majority, and how have different social groups achieved that? Whiteness studies wanted to know. This was a significant shift of the theoretical and empirical gaze, from the subordinate to the dominant, from the minority to the majority, and it shared a family resemblance to the contemporaneous shift in women's studies from studying women to studying men and masculinities.”

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