Despite the differences among theoretical paradigms of practitioners as varied as Harris (cultural materialism),White (neoevolutionism),Steward (cultural ecology),and Mead (configurationalism),all of them have what in common?
A) a strong sense of determinism, leaving very little (if any) room for the exercise of individual human agency
B) a well-founded suspicion of the claims of science
C) an embrace of reflexive anthropology
D) a sense of moral duty to help the people they studied to accelerate their path to civilization
E) a strong concern for the future of anthropological education

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These theorists, despite their varied approaches, share a commonality in their theoretical frameworks that leans towards determinism. This perspective often minimizes the role of individual agency in favor of broader structural or environmental factors influencing human behavior and cultural development.

Despite the Differences Among Theoretical Paradigms of Practitioners as Varied