popularist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: popularists
Etymology: From popular + -ist.
Senses: examples: text: Three composers in the study are undoubted popularists.
ref: 1954, Dennison Nash, The American Composer: A Study in Social-psychology:
text: Blitzstein discerns a pervasive debt to impressionism among these folkloric primitivists, and he refers at times to Bloch explicitly as a “post-impressionist” (whereas he sometimes places Copland among the popularists)
ref: 2012, Howard Pollack, Marc Blitzstein: His Life, His Work, His World, page 120:
glosses: An artist or composer whose work appeals to popular tastes.
examples: text: Here, she has no greater debt than to Sylvester Graham, originally a New Jersey minister who found a more successful calling as the popularist of what his magnum opus summarily entitled The New Science of Human Life.
ref: 2011, James D. Faubion, An Anthropology of Ethics, page 227:
text: Did Alan Watts (1915–1973), one of the first Western popularists of Zen, have it right when he described Zen Art as the “art of artlessness, the art of controlled accident” (Watts 1994)?
ref: 2012, Inken Prohl, John K. Nelson, Handbook of Contemporary Japanese Religions, page 529:
glosses: One who adapts and popularizes a subject.
examples: text: The so-called 'popularists' attempted to exploit the urge of the masses of the Western Ukrainian lands for enlightenment and cultural education in their native tongue in order to strengthen the dominant position of the Ukrainian bourgeoisie.
ref: 1986, I͡U︡riĭ I͡U︡rʹevich Kondufor, A Short History of the Ukraine, page 126:
text: In their view the 'nascent leader' is a transient type which will develop into either a 'leader' or 'popularist'.
ref: 1987, Michael Salamon, Industrial Relations: Theory and Practice, page 168:
text: By and large, the popularists were courted by, and often allied themselves, with the guerrillas.
ref: 1995, Peter R. Baehr, Human Rights in Developing Countries Yearbook, page 22:
text: The popularist believes that, by and large, those persons with power and influence over social decisions, such as government officials, business executives, and labor leaders, act on behalf of their respective constituencies.
ref: 2015, John P. Powelson, The Institutions of Economic Growth:
glosses: On who advocates populism.
examples: text: Despite the paucity of early psychological research on the consequences of job transfers, popularists have been quick to point to the negative consequences of transfer: heart attacks in men, depression in women, maladjustment in children.
ref: 2012, Adrian Furnham, The Psychology of Behaviour at Work: The Individual in the Organization:
text: Traditionalists see only campaigns launched to recover Jerusalem as true crusades; generalists argue that any Christian war fought for God was a crusade; popularists claim that crusading came out of popular, peasant movements; while pluralists argue that any war in which the participants took a vow and gained spiritual rewards could be seen a crusade.
ref: 2012, Kathryn Hurlock, Britain, Ireland and the Crusades, C.1000-1300, page 91:
glosses: One who explains social phenomena in terms of popular responses and habits.