This theory is basically materialistic. It assumes that the systems of producing material goods influences and shapes society.

It is the study of culture through the interpretation of the meaning of symbols, values and beliefs in society.

This theory maintained that societal change occurs when societies borrow cultural traits from one another.

“The dynamic interrelationship between man and the material and cultural components of his environment”.

“The Various patterned aspects of culture shape the personality of individuals within a given society, and also personality once developed could in turn affect the further development of culture.”

This theory believes that each society has its own particular historical development.

This theory focuses on discovering and describing the structural principles of specific culture by detailed ethnographic data analysis.

"The origin of universal principles that order the ways in which we behave and think about the world is to be found in the structure of human thought.”