The research strategy that focuses on technology, environment, and economic factors as key determinants in sociocultural evolution while dividing the sociocultural system into "infrastructure," "structure," and "superstructure" is called __________.

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Cultural materialism, as proposed by Marvin Harris, is the research strategy that emphasizes technology, environment, and economic factors as primary in shaping human sociocultural evolution. It organizes the sociocultural system into three components: infrastructure (material conditions), structure (social organization), and superstructure (ideologies, values, and symbols).

The Research Strategy That Focuses on Technology, Environment, and Economic