- a doctrine that considers environmental conditions to be the determining factor in the development of an individual, society, or culture:Advocates and reformers, using a doctrine of environmental determinism, argued that reforming a degraded built environment would reform its residents.Proponents of environmental determinism would suggest that differences in the education and career aspirations of boys and girls are determined by external socializing forces.
- sometimes used to mean geographical determinism.
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