Marvin harris's theory of cultural materialism argues that material conditions, including technology, determine patterns of social organization, including religious principles. according to the textbook, this theory relies heavily on the earlier work of what great thinker:

Karl Marx

Explanation:

According to materialism as defined by Marx, a methodology focusing on human societies as they developed through history, history itself is the result of material conditions playing the importance instead of ideas.

Focusing on the change of human societies, given certain material conditions, materialism argues institutions like religion, the law systems were produced as collective economical activities took place in the organization of societies.

According to Marvin Harris, ethics and other systems that are part of the culture will have a material component.

A structure whill shape, and to  greater extent a superstructure will also impose conditions

Utimately material conditions will comprise a society's relations to the ambient, which includes ethical systems and defined modes of production and reproduction.