biologism
- noun
- /baɪˈɑlədʒɪzəm/
- Jargon
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biologismo
- I linger over these specifications because it is not unusual to find accusations of "biologism" being directed against that feminist thought that considers sexual difference a philosophical category of the first order.
Examples
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The theory of biologism suggests that our social behaviors can largely be explained through biological principles.
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Even today, biologism is a significant problem.
Academic text (2005) -
Unfortunately, in the postbiblical tradition, especially around the fourth century, the attention was turned to biologism, making physical details seem an important theological issue.
Academic text (2005) -
And all of this "biologism" persists side by side in feminism with the insistence that gender is entirely a social construct.
Academic text (1993) -
There is an entire biologism of sexuality and therefore an entire hold over it by doctors and psychologists—in short, by the agencies of normalization.
Academic text (2012) -
I gave him some proof (Hampson, etc.) that there is no inherited masculine or feminine psychology, but he termed this cheap biologism and continued to exalt women.
Fiction book (1993) -
It has often been pointed out that Freud's economic theories, his belief in an organism driven towards its own stasis, carry the relics of a biologism that the rest of psychoanalysis went some, if not all the way, to discard.
Academic text (1998) -
With its focus on biological factors, biologism can sometimes overlook the social influences on behavior.
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Critics of biologism argue that human actions are shaped by a complex interplay of culture and biology.
Synonyms
The belief that all human traits come only from genes
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word biologism comes from bio- 'life' and the ending -ism 'a belief or system', and it is related to the familiar word biology. So, biologism is the idea that people's behavior is explained mainly by biology.
