cultural construct
collocation in Englishmeaningsofculturalandconstruct
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cultural
adjective
uk/ˈkʌl.tʃər.əl/us/ˈkʌl.tʃɚ.əl/
relating to the habits, traditions, and beliefs of ...
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construct
noun[C]
uk/ˈkɒn.strʌkt/us/ˈkɑːn.strʌkt/
an idea or an ...
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(Definition ofculturalandconstructfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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To him, nationalism is an independentculturalconstructand not just an epiphenomenon in the process of capitalist development.
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For him the market is aculturalconstructrather than a mere economic reality.
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In chap. 4 he considers the role of the "promise" as a historical andculturalconstructand the felicity conditions embedded in the contract itself.
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In contrast, the week is a purelyculturalconstruct.
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In certain aspects, however, the early accounts differ greatly from the later ones with regard to race issues, and thus they demonstrate that race is aculturalconstruct.
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Music is aculturalconstruct, and an extrinsic foundation in culture is necessary so that the intrinsic can have meaning.
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Lerner provides historical, archeological, literary, and artistic evidence for the idea that patriarchy is aculturalconstruct.
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No social orculturalconstructcan contain this idealized individual.
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They constitute more of aculturalconstructthan formal geographical designation.
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As aculturalconstruct, the concept of a continent may go beyond the continental shelf to include oceanic islands and continental fragments.
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Community is viewed as a dynamic social andculturalconstructespecially in contemporary, open, multicultural cities.
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As a conceptual filter andculturalconstruct, ideology is a function and mechanism of discourse control.
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The classification of space and the attachment of meanings to it are therefore pre-eminently cultural constructs.
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Thus, ideas based in local experience become "cultural constructs" and determine how pollution is, or is not, controlled.
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The operative, but deeply submerged, cultural constructs that governed the interaction were political power and professional creative authority.
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Chow sees the clarification as providing the opportunity for obscured cultural practices to become more visible as aculturalconstruct.
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The body comes under medical and personal surveillance as the progression of the disease and the effects of treatment are duly noted within the cultural constructs of effective medical management.
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So this case raises questions concerning cultural constructs of mental illness and mental functioning that affect both popular thinking and understandings of biomedical professionals outside psychiatry.
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