Culture should be the last, not first, explanation invoked for behaviour

Evidence

In his perceptive article ‘Culturalism as Ideology,’ in which he explores the way in which French medical practitioners culturalize the realities of HIV-positive African women living in France, Didier Fassin advises that since culturalism provides such a sense of superiority to French medical practitioners and since it works handily to obscure the social conditions that so obviously influence why African women living in France make the choices they do, we should perhaps turn to culture as the last reason for behaviour. This advice is useful for those considering violence against Muslim women. — Sherene Razack, Casting Out, 333

Categorization

• APHORISMS: Turn to culture as the last reason for behaviour: a compact rule for analysis that inverts the default instinct of most commentary on marginalized groups.
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Sherene Razack, Casting Out: The Eviction of Muslims…, 333