Environmental determinism

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 - course notes