culturalism

cultural +‎ -ism

culturalism (countable and uncountable, plural culturalisms)

1. A belief system that emphasizes the role of culture.
   • 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