culturalism

From cultural +‎ -ism.

culturalism (countable and uncountable, plural culturalisms)

1. A belief system that emphasizes the role of culture.
   • 1995, Germain Kopaczynski, No Higher Court, University of Scranton Press, →ISBN, page 2:

     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, […]

   • 2008, Lois McNay, Against Recognition, page 56:

     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.

• culturalist
• culturalistic

• multicursal

Borrowed from French culturalisme.

culturalism n (plural culturalisme)

1. culturalism

• culturalism in Academia Română, Micul dicționar academic, ediția a II-a, Bucharest: Univers Enciclopedic, 2010. →ISBN