A CULTURAL-ECOLOGICAL THEORY
Sociocultural Materialism
Assumptions:
Human Needs
BIO-PSYCHOLOGICAL NEEDS
Need to Eat
Energy Conservation
Need for Sex
Need for Love
Need for Meaning
Bio-psychological Needs
Environment
Environmental Constraints
Infrastructure
Mode of Production
Modes of Production through History
Mode of Reproduction
Social Structure
Primary Groups
SECONDARY ORGANIZATIONS
Bureaucratization
Elites
Superstructure
Cultural Superstructure
Mental Superstructure
Value oriented behavior
Affective behavior
Traditional behavior
Zweckrational guided behavior
Infrastructural Determinism
Intensification
Rationalization
Feedback Loops:
The role of elites
The role of elites in the U.S.
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