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biological
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There may well have been, but an examination of those described shows the limitations of biological determinism .
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But strong biological determinism flies in the face of experience.
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Feminists are also realizing that a rejection of biology can, paradoxically, increase the influence of biological determinism .
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Surely their replacing biological determinism with social constructionism presents too limited a dialectic.
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Chomsky is committed to an axiom of biological determinism .
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This reveals a fundamental contrast between either biological or sociological determinism and the patriarchy thesis.
economic
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Perhaps even more than Althusser, Foucault represents a decisive move away from economic determinism .
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The basic fallacy in all variations of these theories is their crude mechanistic economic determinism .
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However, structuralist Marxists fail to carry through their qualification of economic determinism .
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But we are too addicted in our social comment to this kind of mechanical economic determinism .
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Some critics also argue that any qualification of economic determinism threatens the distinctiveness of Marxism.
technological
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Contingency theory thus combines elements of technological and social determinism .
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I shall discuss later the theoretical objections to technological determinism .
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But strong biological determinism flies in the face of experience.
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Despite their determinism , the behaviors generated look extremely random.
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Elite theorists, therefore, stand as something of a half-way house' between Marxist determinism and pluralist voluntarism.
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Let us see how physical determinism is to be interpreted in terms of phase space.
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Perhaps even more than Althusser, Foucault represents a decisive move away from economic determinism .
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The necessary order in the historical determinism of Karl Marx is in the contingencies.
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These problems of determinism have been discussed over the centuries.
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We shall see how this affects the question of determinism in these theories.