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Difference between environmental determinism and possiblism

Posted by Sanaton Dexter 4 years, 7 months ago

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Divya Chauhan 4 years, 6 months ago

ENVIRONMENT DETERMINISM : Is a concept given by ELSWORTH HUNTINGTON.. According to him culture of any place is determined by physical environment.. But the theory was discredited It was accepted by AFRICA.. ENVIRONMENT POSSIBLISM: Is a theory given by VIDAL DE LABLACHE According to the theory culture of any place is determined by social environment not by physical.. Theory was liberal. It was accepted.. Japan accepted the theory.

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Yogita Ingle 4 years, 7 months ago

Determinism :-
1. It refers to the point of view supporting environment control on human action.
2. The determinism generally emphasis on human as a passive agent influenced by the factors determine their attitude, decision-making and life style.
3. The scholars who supported deter - minism were Greek and Roman scholar.

Possibilism :-
1. It refer to the physical environment for humans to exploit it for benefits.
2. The emphasis is firmly placed on human rather than nature.
3. Lucian Febvre and Vidal de la Blache advocated and developed system-atically the school of possibilism.

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