eprintid: 27527 rev_number: 11 eprint_status: archive userid: 1475 dir: disk0/00/02/75/27 datestamp: 2018-10-08 06:14:40 lastmod: 2018-10-08 06:14:40 status_changed: 2018-10-08 06:14:40 type: conference_item metadata_visibility: show title: Infrastructural determinism in terms of globalization language: english abstract: This conference paper deals with the issue of cultural materialism and its applicability to researching modern cultural phenomena in terms of globalization. Let us start from the defining of cultural materialism and its premises. Cultural materialism is a Marxist-based approach to anthropological interpretation, which differs from traditional Marxism by expanding the view of dialectical materialism to include specific cultural, environmental, and other influences and outcomes. Cultural materialism as an anthropological paradigm founded upon Marxist materialistic thought. American anthropologist Marvin Harris, who elaborated this concept, was influenced by the writings of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels.As in Marxism, cultural materialism considers that all socio-cultural systems consist of three levels: infrastructure (technology, economics, and demographics), structure (cultural and kinship systems), and superstructure (ideology, religion). creators_name: Bidochko, L. ispublished: pub subjects: B1 divisions: sch_phi full_text_status: public pres_type: speech date: 2017 date_type: published pagerange: 63-64 event_title: Глобалізований світ : випробування людського буття Міжнародна науково- теоретична конференція event_location: Житомир : Вид-во Євенок О. О. event_dates: 6-7 жовтня 2017 року event_type: conference refereed: TRUE citation: Bidochko, L. (2017) Infrastructural determinism in terms of globalization. In: Глобалізований світ : випробування людського буття Міжнародна науково- теоретична конференція, 6-7 жовтня 2017 року, Житомир : Вид-во Євенок О. О.. document_url: http://eprints.zu.edu.ua/27527/1/Bidochko.pdf