Environmental determinism
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Environmental determinism is the view that the physical environment, rather than social conditions, determines culture. Those who believe this view say that humans are strictly defined by stimulus-response (environment-behavior) and cannot deviate.
Carl Ritter, Ellen Churchill Semple, Jared Diamond, Ellsworth Huntington, and Thomas Griffith Taylor prominent environmental determinists. Friedrich Ratzel was mistakenly viewed as deterministic by many of his students.
External link
- North Dakota State University (http://www.ndsu.nodak.edu/instruct/isern/382/taylor.htm) - course notes