Social determinism is the theory that social interactions alone determine individual behavior (as opposed to biological or objective factors).[citation...

Determinism is the philosophical view that all events in the universe, including human decisions and actions, are causally inevitable. Deterministic theories...

technological determinism and his theory on cultural lag. The term is believed to have been coined by Thorstein Veblen (1857–1929), an American social scientist...

Environmental determinism (also known as climatic determinism or geographical determinism) is the study of how the physical environment predisposes societies...

Hard determinism (or metaphysical determinism) is a view on free will which holds that determinism is true, that it is incompatible with free will, and...

Biological determinism, also known as genetic determinism, is the belief that human behaviour is directly controlled by an individual's genes or some component...

resolve social contradictions. Determinism Dialectical materialism Economic determinism Environmental determinism Free will Geographic determinism Hegelianism...

Reciprocal determinism is the theory set forth by psychologist Albert Bandura which states that a person's behavior both influences and is influenced...

biological versus social determinism and advocates a deeper analysis of how interactions between the biological being and the social environment influence...

and the Dunblane Massacre to selectively show technological determinism and social determinism. According to Green, a technology can be thought of as a neutral...

of social development that describe culture as the factor that determines all of the others. This is distinct from theories of economic determinism such...

determinism Environmental determinism Social determinism Technological determinism Nominative determinism Climatic determinism Biological determinism...

incompatible with determinism is called incompatibilism and encompasses both metaphysical libertarianism (the claim that determinism is false and thus...

Nominative determinism is the hypothesis that people tend to gravitate towards areas of work that fit their names. The term was first used in the magazine...

It is subjective in nature because its conceptualization is rooted in social norms of expected behavior, self-expression, and personal growth. The dominant...

Economic determinism is a socioeconomic theory that economic relationships (such as being an owner or capitalist or being a worker or proletarian) are...

his first published works. Literary critics noted the presence of social determinism and hints of surrealism in the story, while others saw neither deep...

Netherlands of international contemporary artist THE KID, who questions social determinism and the frontier between innocence and corruption in modern societies...

philosophy of social determinism and why a lack of personal responsibility for one's actions results from an individual's beliefs in determinism. The writing...

means that it will continue to exist in the future. The other model, social determinism, claims that society itself controls how a technology is used and...

Linguistic determinism is the concept that language and its structures limit and determine human knowledge or thought, as well as thought processes such...

progeny. Critics of evolutionary psychology accuse it of promoting genetic determinism, pan-adaptationism (the idea that all behaviors and anatomical features...

"Essentialism goes social: Belief in social determinism as a component of psychological essentialism". Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. 100...

rape of males. He considered them vulnerable to the charge of genetic determinism, and criticized their view that rape is sexually motivated. De Waal considered...

21st century. He confronts the audience with, among other notions, social determinism and the thin frontier between innocence and corruption within his...

Goldberg, "Social Determinism and Rationality As Bases of Party Identification," American Political Science Review, March 1969; Huddy, "From Social to Political...

Social history, often called "history from below", is a field of history that looks at the lived experience of the past. Historians who write social history...

innovation and technological determinism. It differs from these notably in the attention it pays to the influence of the social and technological context...

was criticized by Ernst Gombrich as “social determinism” going too far. Gombrich wrote in his review of The Social History of Art that Hauser's “theoretical...

the psychological complexities of its characters and on the role of social determinism the characters' lives than on dramatic or melodramatic retellings...