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The use or emphasis of biological principles or methods in explaining human, especially social, behavior.

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biologism

Source Word

biologism

Noun

uncountable usually

The use or emphasis of biological principles or methods in explaining human, especially social, behavior.

Japanese Meaning

生物学の原理や手法を用いて、人間―特に社会的行動を―説明する考え方 / 生物学的視点に基づいて人間の行動や社会現象を解釈する立場・理論

The committee criticized the scholar's reliance on biologism as an insufficient explanation for complex social behaviors.

委員会は、学者の生物学的説明への依存を複雑な社会的行動を説明するには不十分だと批判した。

Sense（1）

The use or emphasis of biological principles or methods in explaining human, especially social, behavior.

But Sophocles and Rhode are both very much concerned with crude biologism vis-à-vis the Oedipal situation.

biologisms

（ plural ）