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

Riffing off Samuel Beckett’s “Waiting for Godot” and the Exodus story in the Bible as well as being informed by the death of Trayvon Martin, the play explores structural racism, police brutality and economic determinism.

From Seattle Times

Careless language — workers are not sharing America’s bounty? — serves Rubio’s economic determinism, which postulates a recent economic cause for complex and decades-long social changes.

From Washington Post

What students of Marxism would call economic determinism has its place, but it risks constant denial of the fact that politics has long since slipped free of the old simplicities of class and economic complaint.

From The Guardian

Recognizing consciousness is the motor of thought, desire, agency and struggle is a burden for many today because it refuses the notion of fate, easy orthodoxy, economic determinism and the silly discourse of objective contradictions, not to mention the collapse into political purity and the notion that biology drives our politics.

From Salon

Now, I don’t believe in economic determinism.

From The New Yorker