| 单词 | biological determinism |
| 释义 | > as lemmasbiological determinism biological determinism n. [originally after French déterminisme biologique (1897 in the title of the work by F. Le Dantec referred to in quot. 1897)] the attribution of sole or excessive importance to biological factors in the determination of intelligence, behaviour, development, etc.; cf. genetic determinism n. at genetic adj. Compounds 2c. ΚΠ 1897 Mind 6 427 This is the sequel to the author's Thèorie de la Vie, which dealt with ‘biological determinism’. 1939 Social Forces 18 33/2 Although strict biological determinism is no longer regarded seriously, it has fastened upon sociology an incubus of biological basis which dies hard. 1994 S. Pinker Lang. Instinct xiii. 406 The alternative, sometimes called ‘biological determinism’, is said to assign people to fixed slots in the socio-political-economic hierarchy, and to be the cause of many of the horrors of recent centuries. 2005 M. Lewycka Short Hist. Tractors in Ukrainian i. 5 ‘You have to understand that in some respects the man is governed by different impulses to the woman.’ ‘Pappa, please, spare me the biological determinism.’ < as lemmas |
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