Ring ilmu sosial sane linggah, perspektif teoritis materialisme budaya nyelasang indik budaya simbolik manusa ngawit saking kondisi material kaidupan manusa, krana manusa nyiptayang kondisi anggena ngelangsungan hidup fisik, lan indik dasar budaya kapanggih ring disposisi biologis sane makembang.
In the wider social sciences, the theoretical perspective of cultural materialism holds that human symbolic culture arises from the material conditions of human life, as humans create the conditions for physical survival, and that the basis of culture is found in evolved biological dispositions.