NURSING EXAM QUESTIONS
SOCIOLOGY
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Herbert Spencer
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Harriet Martineau
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Auguste Comte
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Karl Marx
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Detailed explanation-1: -Herbert Spencer is famous for his doctrine of social Darwinism, which asserted that the principles of evolution, including natural selection, apply to human societies, social classes, and individuals as well as to biological species developing over geologic time.
Detailed explanation-2: -Durkheim’s analysis of the ways in which different parts of society operate to create a functioning whole, as well as his use of the organic analogy, was in many ways inspired by Spencer’s own brand of functionalist analysis.
Detailed explanation-3: -Although he used the expression in 1843 in his Letters collected as The Proper Sphere of Government, and in Social Statics (Spencer, 1851), it was “The Social Organism” (Spencer, 1860) that clarified what it meant to him.
Detailed explanation-4: -Spencer was initially best known for developing and applying evolutionary theory to philosophy, psychology and the study of society-what he called his “synthetic philosophy” (see his A System of Synthetic Philosophy, 1862-93).
Detailed explanation-5: -After Darwin published his theories on biological evolution and natural selection, Herbert Spencer drew further parallels between his economic theories and Darwin’s scientific principles.