Masters Theses
Abstract
"The term, "social determinism", is a rather unfortunate designation for the absolute conditioning of human character by the aggregate of biologic and social influences...The central idea of this positivistic interpretation is that man, along with all other organic things, is the product of hereditary accidence and environmental contacts, that his psychic and physical constitutions (if there be such differentiation) are fashioned to the minutest detail by circumstance, and that his thoughts and the chemic impulses of his nature appear precisely according to his character which he has no hand in making"--Introduction, page 2-3.
Advisor(s)
Barley, Joseph Wayne
Department(s)
English and Technical Communication
Degree Name
M.S. in English
Publisher
Missouri School of Mines and Metallurgy
Publication Date
1929
Pagination
i, 136 pages
Note about bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (page 44).
Rights
© 1929 Arthur Lenox Bradford, All rights reserved.
Document Type
Thesis - Open Access
File Type
text
Language
English
Subject Headings
Determinism (Philosophy)
Nature and nurture
Thesis Number
T 554
Print OCLC #
9512398
Electronic OCLC #
436470563
Link to Catalog Record
Recommended Citation
Bradford, Arthur Lenox, "The concept of social determinism as a motivating influence in some modern tragedy" (1929). Masters Theses. 4698.
https://scholarsmine.mst.edu/masters_theses/4698
