Social and cultural structures overdetermine our natural human constitution.

Evidence

Objective culture grows according to its own immanent logic; subjective culture grows according to the logic of the unfolding personality. Mastery of, say, an ethical argument, a botanical monograph, and the Schönberg quartets would be indicated by and subordinated to the form of one’s emerging individuality in the latter case; in the former, to the developmental needs of the disciplines of ethics, botany, and music. — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 32 (#qualifies, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: The collective unconscious is culturally imposed, not biologically inherited — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 668; Structuralism introduced a new kind of non-reflective causality between social and mental categories.; Human culture originates in the socially mediated relation between man and nature (+32 more)

Related

• Human culture originates in the socially mediated relation between man and nature (similarity 0.88)
• Culture is inherently decentered and resists direct linkage to other structures (similarity 0.84)
• Structuralism decentered individual agency that culturalism treated as authentic (similarity 0.84)
• Individuality is produced by entering culture, not given at birth (similarity 0.82)
• Cultures represent themselves as fixed but are always changed by history (similarity 0.81)
• Natural selection shaped psychological mechanisms that determine which cultural beliefs persist. (similarity 0.80)
• Popular culture theory requires conceiving persons as fundamentally cultural beings. (similarity 0.80)
• Culture as objectivated design of human existence is the anthropological definition (similarity 0.80)
• Structuralism introduced a new kind of non-reflective causality between social and mental categories. (similarity 0.79)
• Each cultural form is inevitably replaced by its successor (similarity 0.79)
• Culture as constitutive of practice retains contingency and is never finally determined (similarity 0.79)
• Both nature’s mechanism and history’s determinism oppress the modern self (similarity 0.79)
• Cultural evolution has been the central driver of human genetic evolution for eons. (similarity 0.79)
• No culture’s content is derivable from universal human nature or nature itself. (similarity 0.79)
• Objective and subjective culture grow by fundamentally different logics (similarity 0.79)

Broader Connections

• Objective and subjective culture grow by fundamentally different logics #qualifies (0.80) — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 32
• Human culture originates in the socially mediated relation between man and nature #expands (0.70)
• Ideologies act on people structurally through a process that escapes them #corroborates (0.70)
• Full autonomy of social levels cannot capture a social formation’s complex unity #corroborates (0.70)
• Structuralism decentered individual agency that culturalism treated as authentic #corroborates (0.65)
• Culture is inherently decentered and resists direct linkage to other structures #complicates (0.60)
• Each major philosophical era mirrors its epoch’s dominant social structure #exemplifies (0.55) — Bertrand Russell, History of Western Philosophy, 2847