Culturalism

noun

noun ·5 syllables ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A belief system that emphasizes the role of culture. countable, uncountable

    "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, […]"

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"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, […]"

Etymology

From cultural + -ism.

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