Thus, he states, computer technology "did not come out of any pre-established necessity: it was technologically induced rather than socially determined".

Symbolic interaction argues the world is made up of social objects that are named and have socially determined meanings.

"The causes of health inequalities are socially determined," he said.

The value attached to this question, and the usual psychoanalytic answer to it, are seen by many feminists as completely or largely socially determined.

The specific conditions that correspond to certain consequences are socially determined by the norms and ideologies of a society.

"What we perceive as healthy may to a certain extent be socially determined," he says.

The task of philosophy itself became somewhat downgraded if, like all other knowledge, it was socially determined.

In addition to this, what counts as 'full employment' is socially determined and changes over time.

Millions of years ago, in the now-vanished Jurassic world, their behavior would have been socially determined, passed on from older to younger animals.

For them, race is cultural and therefore socially determined.