The phrase "material roots" is correct and can be used in written English.
You can use it to refer to the physical objects, resources, materials, and conditions that determine a person's progress or success, or the progress or success of a group. For example, "Each student was offered the same opportunities, but their success varied due to their individual material roots."
This assumption was based on the modern prejudice that bad behavior has material roots.
The tendency of Hegelians to give causal primacy to idealist factors was replaced by the emphasis Marx and Friedrich Engels placed on the material roots of social change.
For many leftist commentators, in particular, identity politics is something of a bête noire, representing the capitulation to cultural criticism in place of analysis of the material roots of oppression.
During the 5-year project, more than 40 taxa spanning 24 genera were selected for study involving collection and movement of live material (roots, seeds) from Madagascar to labs in the United Kingdom (UK) and the United States (USA).
They chew plant leaf material, roots, stems and tree trunks into smaller pieces, making it easier for bacteria and fungi to find the food they like on the newly exposed surfaces.
Fresh plant material (roots) was collected from the high altitude of Patnitop in Jammu and Kashmir, India, and identified at the herbarium of the department of Botany, Jammu University.
It certainly meshes perfectly with his material, rooted as it is in the experience of feeling like a nerdish outsider at the perpetual bacchanal of young male life.
Eagle's accordion and keyboards and Hughes's guitar add piquancy to a vivid range of contemporary material rooted in the grand tradition of political folk music.
Monika Brodka won the third series of Polish Pop Idol in 2004 aged 16 but has lately revived her career with an ambitious album of highly original material rooted in the folk music of her childhood.
In the first half of the program, she discusses the evolution of the choreography, from solo material rooted in her own body to a full-fledged ensemble work that draws on each dancer's individuality.
In both trials, root mass and length increased, decreased, or were unchanged with increasing 0.5-m increments of the distance from stem and soil depth, depending on year, planting material, root diameter, and their interaction.
