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单词 androcentric
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Definition of androcentric in English:

androcentric

adjectiveˌandrə(ʊ)ˈsɛntrɪkˌandrōˈsentrik
  • Focused or centred on men.

    I would like to consider the dominant role of men in an androcentric, patriarchal society
    Example sentencesExamples
    • Nevertheless, women noticed the prevalence of men as teachers and other Buddhist authorities, and the androcentric (male-centered) language of most liturgies.
    • From its purely androcentric and heterosexual viewpoint, however, Lacan's theory neglects to account for the experience of women or of homosexual men.
    • At this point, I would like to consider the dominant role of men in an androcentric, patriarchal society.
    • Rather than offering a comprehensive account of objectivity, some feminists have offered methodological guidelines for avoiding the sexist and androcentric errors and biases that feminists have identified in mainstream science.
    • Nonetheless, I am reminded of a remark that if science is androcentric, then this is the best endorsement for androcentrism that one can find.
    • Exchange theory, which focuses on rational self-interest as the basis for relatedness, has been particularly criticized by feminist writers as androcentric.
    • These are beyond the scope of this paper, but the key point here is that the conduct of gender comparison research necessitates constant vigilance given ‘the implacable fact of an androcentric cultural context’.
    • But it cannot be ruled out that as a consequence of the patriarchal and androcentric perspective, it was a matter of debate whether the image of God applies to women in a way identical with its application to men.
    • Now some German feminists are suggesting that frau should replace the indefinite man, which is an androcentric generic when used in contexts such as man soll das nicht machen ‘one shouldn't do that’.
    • They strongly identify with a fundamentally androcentric religion.
    • Furthermore, Keller challenges exclusively Western, androcentric interpretations of agency and subjectivity, offering alternative concepts such as communal identity and nonvoluntary agency.
    • But most of the literature on globalization continues to be androcentric, ignoring the centrality of women to the economic restructuring of the years since the mid-1970s.
    • Unfortunately, the convention's minutes were generally androcentric, which means that the participation of the woman is reported in relation to her husband.
    • Most forceful among these voices were those of African women, who declared that the Pan-Africanism of the formal leadership was androcentric and patriarchal.
    • That the ideal in scientific inquiry would posit the existence of a disinterested, detached, neutral observer is itself reflective of the androcentric nature of knowledge creation.
    • Afrocentrism, with its all-too-common androcentric bias, still has far to go to overcome its seemingly inherent myopia regarding the thought of black women.
    • The roots of this tradition lie with the western, heterosexual androcentric values of the 19th century prescriptive grammar movement.
    • Wanting to downplay the expert/subject imbalance I had to avoid the traditional androcentric scientific research methodologies where the researcher examines the subject.
    • This was a woman-centred psychology, whose aim was to redress the theoretical and empirical inadequacies of an androcentric discipline.
    • This leads me to understand rabbinic texts not as patriarchal but as androcentric.

Derivatives

  • androcentrism

  • nounˌandrə(ʊ)ˈsɛntrɪz(ə)mˌændroʊˈsɛntrɪzəm
    • However, in swinging away from past androcentrism, the pendulum is in danger of going to the other extreme; sexism rubs both ways.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • So much of claimed rationality is in fact androcentrism masquerading as value-free objective analysis.
      • Unfortunately, as Farquhar points out, these texts also normalize androcentrism.
      • The religious difficulty of paternal imagery is not primarily due to its androcentrism or patriarchy.
      • Feminists criticize the misogyny of philosophers and the overt and covert sexism, androcentrism, and related forms of male bias in philosophy.

Rhymes

centric, concentric, eccentric, egocentric, ethnocentric, Eurocentric, geocentric, phallocentric, theocentric
 
 

Definition of androcentric in US English:

androcentric

adjectiveˌandrōˈsentrik
  • Focused or centered on men.

    I would like to consider the dominant role of men in an androcentric, patriarchal society
    Example sentencesExamples
    • Unfortunately, the convention's minutes were generally androcentric, which means that the participation of the woman is reported in relation to her husband.
    • This was a woman-centred psychology, whose aim was to redress the theoretical and empirical inadequacies of an androcentric discipline.
    • Nevertheless, women noticed the prevalence of men as teachers and other Buddhist authorities, and the androcentric (male-centered) language of most liturgies.
    • From its purely androcentric and heterosexual viewpoint, however, Lacan's theory neglects to account for the experience of women or of homosexual men.
    • At this point, I would like to consider the dominant role of men in an androcentric, patriarchal society.
    • That the ideal in scientific inquiry would posit the existence of a disinterested, detached, neutral observer is itself reflective of the androcentric nature of knowledge creation.
    • But it cannot be ruled out that as a consequence of the patriarchal and androcentric perspective, it was a matter of debate whether the image of God applies to women in a way identical with its application to men.
    • Wanting to downplay the expert/subject imbalance I had to avoid the traditional androcentric scientific research methodologies where the researcher examines the subject.
    • The roots of this tradition lie with the western, heterosexual androcentric values of the 19th century prescriptive grammar movement.
    • Now some German feminists are suggesting that frau should replace the indefinite man, which is an androcentric generic when used in contexts such as man soll das nicht machen ‘one shouldn't do that’.
    • This leads me to understand rabbinic texts not as patriarchal but as androcentric.
    • Furthermore, Keller challenges exclusively Western, androcentric interpretations of agency and subjectivity, offering alternative concepts such as communal identity and nonvoluntary agency.
    • Exchange theory, which focuses on rational self-interest as the basis for relatedness, has been particularly criticized by feminist writers as androcentric.
    • Nonetheless, I am reminded of a remark that if science is androcentric, then this is the best endorsement for androcentrism that one can find.
    • These are beyond the scope of this paper, but the key point here is that the conduct of gender comparison research necessitates constant vigilance given ‘the implacable fact of an androcentric cultural context’.
    • Afrocentrism, with its all-too-common androcentric bias, still has far to go to overcome its seemingly inherent myopia regarding the thought of black women.
    • Rather than offering a comprehensive account of objectivity, some feminists have offered methodological guidelines for avoiding the sexist and androcentric errors and biases that feminists have identified in mainstream science.
    • They strongly identify with a fundamentally androcentric religion.
    • But most of the literature on globalization continues to be androcentric, ignoring the centrality of women to the economic restructuring of the years since the mid-1970s.
    • Most forceful among these voices were those of African women, who declared that the Pan-Africanism of the formal leadership was androcentric and patriarchal.
 
 
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