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The 11 pages that link to Cultural determinism, each with the reason it gives.

• Environmental determinismCompared with: It reverses the causal emphasis by making culture, rather than physical environment, primary.

• Margaret MeadRelated: Mead’s ethnographies foregrounded cultural variation in traits often treated as natural.

• Cultural materialismCompared with: It reverses cultural materialism’s emphasis on material conditions as drivers of cultural patterns.

• Ruth BenedictCompared with: Critics questioned whether Benedict’s patterns gave culture too much power to explain individual conduct.

• Cultural ecologyCompared with: It gives culture explanatory priority where cultural ecology studies reciprocal environmental relations.

• Cultural psychologyCompared with: Cultural psychology studies influence and mutual shaping, not fixed cultural control.

• Biological determinismCompared with: It reverses biological determinism’s emphasis by assigning primary causal force to culture.

• Hippolyte TaineRelated: Taine’s explanations invite debate over how far cultural conditions determine individual and collective life.

• Leslie WhiteCompared with: White’s claim that culture follows its own dynamics raised questions about cultural autonomy and human agency.

• Coming of Age in SamoaCompared with: Critics questioned whether Mead’s argument gave culture too much explanatory power.

• Melford SpiroCompared with: Spiro’s account resisted explanations that treat cultural learning as the sole source of human behavior.