Multiple Choice
According to Julian Steward, the environment and the availability of resources has a definite influence on the form of social organization. This approach to studying cultural evolution, called , was exemplified nicely in his study of the social organization of the Shoshone during different seasons of the year.
A) cultural materialism
B) environmental determinism
C) environmentally driven evolution
D) diffusion-evolution
E) cultural ecology
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