elective affinity

== English == === Etymology === Calque of German Wahlverwandtschaft. === Noun === elective affinity (plural elective affinities) (sociology) A process by which two cultural forms (e.g. religious, intellectual, political or economic) having certain similarities or kinships enter into a relationship of reciprocal attraction and influence, and mutual reinforcement. 2000, Milton Fisk, Toward a Healthy Society: The Morality and Politics of American Health Care Reform, Lawrence, KA: University Press of Kansas, Chapter 8, pp. 196-197,[2] Weber spoke of an elective affinity between a form of religious belief (Protestantism) and a practical ethics (the work ethic of capitalism). His idea can be extended to explain how different groups come to have a basis for entering a single party. (dated) The feeling of being attracted to or sympathetic with someone or something. (chemistry, obsolete) The tendency of a substance to combine with some specific substances more readily than others. Synonym: elective attraction ==== Translations ==== ==== See also ==== valence === References === === Further reading === “elective affinity”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.