美国文化唯物主义技术观研究

美国人类学家马尔文.哈里斯以“文化唯物主义”观点著称。他把技术的内容放在其社会文化体系的基础结构部分之内,并赋予技术以客位性行为的特征。哈里斯是一位基于基础结构决定论原则的弱技术决定论者。研究其技术观有着重要的借鉴意义。

View on Technology of Culture Materialism in America

Marvin Harris,an American anthropologist,is famous for his theory called Culture Materialism.He puts contents of technology in the fundamental structure,a part of his so-called social-cultural system,and gives technology with the characteristic of etics behavior.Sticking to the standpoint of weak technological determinism on the basis of determination of fundamental structure,Harris gives men importantly illuminate meanings on research of technological phenomena.