nativismn.
/ˈneɪtᵻvɪz(ə)m/, U.S. /ˈneɪdəˌvɪz(ə)m/ 1.
a. Chiefly U.S. The attitude, practice, or policy of protecting the interests of native-born or existing inhabitants against those of immigrants; spec. the ideology of the Native American party (now historical).
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society > society and the community > social attitudes > patriotism > nationalism > [noun] > indigenization
nativism1844
indigenization1951
1844 Whig Almanac 1845 4/2 Thousands were Naturalized expressly to oppose Nativism, and voted the Polk ticket mainly to that end.
1856 Notes & Queries 5 Jan. 9/2 In a kind of feud now existing between American-born and foreign-born citizens, the former are said to profess Nativism.
1864 T. L. Nichols 40 Years Amer. Life II. 90 These necessities destroyed nativism and the political Anti-Catholic party.
1890 S. J. Duncan Social Departure 230 Graphic fervour, wherein his nativism showed like the cloven foot.
1949 Hist. & Philos. Soc. Ohio Bull. Jan. 20 During the middle of the last century nativism was very strong in parts of America, especially in the Ohio Valley.
1965 Guardian 6 Aug. 5/3 The revived nativism of white, rural, Protestant America.
1989 C. R. Wilson & W. Ferris Encycl. Southern Culture 415/2 Throughout the 19th century nativism flared in the North.
b. Cultural Anthropology. Return to or emphasis on indigenous customs and traditions, esp. in opposition to those introduced from elsewhere.
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society > society and the community > customs, values, and civilization > [noun] > process > types of
cantonizing1611
diffusion1871
social differentiation1872
acculturation1880
feminization1901
mobilization1911
acculturalization1929
mimesis1934
schismogenesis1935
stimulus diffusion1940
transculturation1941
nativism1943
massification1946
villagization1954
1943 R. Linton in Amer. Anthropologist 45 231 It is necessary to distinguish between those forms of nativism which involve an attempt to revive extinct or at least moribund elements of culture and those which merely seek to perpetuate current ones.
1964 J. Gould & W. L. Kolb Dict. Social Sci. 458/1 Examples of nativism would include peyotism and cargo cults. Another example is the Ghost Dance of the American Indians.
1999 Current Anthropol. 40 289/1 A social movement's claim that indigenous communities' rights to forests have priority over distant urban consumers may be criticized for constructing a problematic topology around locality, closed community, nativism, subsistence, and so on.
2.
a. Philosophy. The belief that some knowledge and ideas are innate, rather than acquired by learning.
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the mind > mental capacity > philosophy > idealism > [noun] > innatism or apriorism
apriority1854
apriorism1874
nativism1878
priority1890
innatism1909
1878 Mind 3 194 We are now prepared to see what the question between Nativism and Empirism has to do with the ontological problem respecting the independent reality of space.
1901 Chambers's Encycl. VIII. 476/1 The opposed views of Nativism and Empiricism.
1996 Philos. Rev. 105 532 Chapter 1 introduces classical empiricism, which for Carruthers has two main strands: opposition to nativism and rejection of a priori knowledge.
b. Psychology and Linguistics. Originally: the theory that in the development of language an inherent connection exists in the mind between sound and sense. Later: the theory that certain capacities or abilities (esp. those of sense perception or language) are innate, rather than acquired by learning.
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the mind > language > [noun] > origin of language > theories of
pooh-pooh theory1861
bow-wow theory1864
symphonesis1872
nativism1892
ta-ta theory1930
sing-song theory1939
the mind > mental capacity > psychology > psychology of perception > [noun] > doctrine of innate perception
nativism1924
the mind > language > [noun] > language acquisition > theories of
nativism1970
1892 Monist 2 316 By Nativism, Marty understands the theory that certain involuntary articulate sounds are associated with certain ideas.
1924 R. M. Ogden tr. K. Koffka Growth of Mind i. 1 And even to-day no agreement has been reached between the rival theories of empiricism and nativism, the first of which emphasizes the influence of environment, and the second the influence of heredity.
1970 Language 46 139 In the revival of Cartesian philosophical views of language, a number of other moribund doctrines have been brought to spectral life, too: mentalism, nativism (the innate-endowment component in child language studies).
1991 Eng. Today July 17/2 Some years before Grainger carried linguistic nativism about as far as it could be taken, the Cambridge philosopher of language C. K. Ogden formulated..Basic English.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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