culturalism

plural culturalisms

1. countableuncountableA belief system that emphasizes the role of culture.

   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, […]

   1995, Germain Kopaczynski, No Higher Court, University of Scranton Press, →ISBN, page 2

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   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.

   2008, Lois McNay, Against Recognition, page 56