cross-cultural approach

a research method in which specific social practices, such as courtship behavior, child-rearing practices, or therapeutic attitudes and techniques, are studied and compared across a number of different cultures. Also called cross-cultural method.

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anabolism

n. see metabolism. —anabolic adj.