The concept of social determinism as a motivating influence in some modern tragedy

Author

Arthur Lenox Bradford

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

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