His work laid the foundations for the field of cultural studies and the cultural materialist approach.
During the Soviet period, Shatskii would be influenced by Marxism, blending his own liberational, progressive educational ideas with Marx's materialist approach.
Anderson's historical materialist approach may be contrasted with Liah Greenfeld's methodological individualist or Max Weber's approach in "Nationalism: Five Roads to Modernity".
White's materialist approach is evident in the following quote: "man as an animal species, and consequently culture as a whole, is dependent upon the material, mechanical means of adjustment to the natural environment".
In reaction to this interpretive trend, there is a more recent fashion for a materialist, "scientific" approach to her art, one that focuses on her paintings' formal, optical properties.
More crudely the materialist Epicurean approach implies that we are different from other animals because of our education.
The materialist approach offers insight into the sources of health inequalities among individuals and nations and the role played by the social determinants of health.
Kosambi was also a Marxist historian specialising in ancient India who employed the historical materialist approach in his work.
The development of her work over the past fifty years has been closely related to locating the many principles of abstraction in nature utilizing a materialist approach.
Marxist theories, such as revolutionary theory and class theory, cover work in philosophy which is strongly influenced by Karl Marx's materialist approach to theory or which is written by Marxists.