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substantivist, n. (and a.)|sʌbˈstæntɪvɪst| [f. substantive a. + -ist.] One who advocates a method of analysis founded on experience, evidence, or proof, in preference to theory; an empiricist; spec. in Anthropol. [developed from Karl Polanyi's distinction between ‘substantive rationality’ and ‘formal rationality’], one who opposes the application of formal economic theories to the study of primitive economies. Also attrib. passing into adj., proposing or epitomizing such a method; resistant to speculation.
1946Mind LV. 193 There is at present no common ground between the Substantivists and their opponents. 1966Amer. Anthropologist LXVIII. 336 Karl Polanyi and his followers, the Substantivist school of economic anthropology, are unanimous in their judgement that economic theory..is inapplicable to the study of ‘non-market’ or ‘primitive’ economies. 1972M. Sahlins Stone Age Econ. p. xi, The book inscribes itself in the current anthropological controversy between ‘formalist’ and ‘substantivist’ practices of economic theory. 1978B. Chapman Clarke's Analytical Archaeol. (ed. 2) x. 428 The interpretation of these patterns depended upon the stimulus of developing ‘substantivist’ economic anthropology. 1983Dissertation Abstr. Internat. XLIV. 803/2 The group known as the ‘Substantivists’..proposed a ‘substantive’ approach, i.e. one that was better suited to the particular social, cultural and historical circumstances of the economies in question. Hence subˈstantivism n.
1974E. Gellner tr. Semenov's Theoret. Probl. ‘Econ. Anthropol.’ in Philos. of Social Sci. IV. 210 If the spiritual forerunner of this movement, which received the name ‘substantivism’, was B. Malinowski, then its immediate founder was the economist and economic historian K. Polanyi. 1977― in Government & Opposition XII. 376 But if the Russians are natural substantivists, then the Czechs are natural victims of substantivism. 1980Dissertation Abstr. Internat. XLI. 2670/2 Marxism has joined the theoretical debate in economic anthropology later than Formalism and Substantivism. |