economic determinism

American  

[ek-uh-nom-ik di-tur-muh-niz-uhm, eekuh-] / ˈɛk əˌnɒm ɪk dɪˈtɜr məˌnɪz əm, ˈikə- /

noun

1. Sociology. the doctrine that all social, cultural, political, and intellectual forms are determined by or result from such economic factors as the quality of natural resources, productive capability, technological development, or the distribution of wealth.

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economic determinism British  

noun

1. a doctrine that states that all cultural, social, political, and intellectual activities are a product of the economic organization of society

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Other Word Forms

• economic determinist
  noun

Example Sentences

Founded in Detroit in 1930, the Nation of Islam combined economic determinism, religious nationalism and a politically tailored theology.

From Washington Post • Nov. 5, 2011

Having traded in his trademark leather bomber for a blazer with jeans, Mr. Kaus expounded on Reaganism, economic determinism, labor markets and the new Tesla factory before remembering he needed to do a fund-raising pitch.

From New York Times • Jun. 4, 2010

It posits a fundamentalist belief in economic determinism that Marx himself would probably have disavowed.

From Time Magazine Archive

As Harvard Divinity School's George Williams sees it, Wojtyla's philosophy of individual self-determination permits man to challenge the totalitarian state as in Nazism, or economic determinism as in Communism.

From Time Magazine Archive

Of course you will find plenty of socialists who see other issues and who smile a bit at the rigors of economic determinism.

From A Preface to Politics by Lippmann, Walter