In dictionaries:
economic determinism
Economics primarily shapes societal structures.
biological determinism
The hypothesis that biological factors such as an organism's genes (as opposed to social or environmental factors) determine the majority of psychological and behavioural traits.
Technological determinism
a reductionist theory in assuming that a society's technology progresses by following its own internal logic of efficiency, while determining the development of the social structure and cultural values.
genetic determinism
The hypothesis that an organism's genes (as opposed to social or environmental factors) determine psychological and behavioural traits.
Historical determinism
the belief that events in history are entirely determined or constrained by various prior forces and, therefore, in a certain sense, inevitable.
cultural determinism
the belief that the culture in which we are raised determines who we are at emotional and behavioral levels.
causal determinism
Every event caused by prior.
scientific determinism
Causality governing all natural phenomena.
psychic determinism
Belief that all thoughts predetermined.
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