NURSING EXAM QUESTIONS
SOCIOLOGY
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The phrase “survival of the fittest, “ or the belief that the best aspects of society would survive over time, was coined by
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Auguste Comte
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Max Weber
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Karl Marx
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Herbert Spencer
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Explanation:
Detailed explanation-1: -The Principles of Biology by Herbert Spencer (1864) looked at biology in terms of themes, such as Function, Adaptation and Variation. In this book Spencer introduced the expression ‘survival of the fittest’, in the sense of ‘the most appropriate to its environment’.
Detailed explanation-2: -survival of the fittest, term made famous in the fifth edition (published in 1869) of On the Origin of Species by British naturalist Charles Darwin, which suggested that organisms best adjusted to their environment are the most successful in surviving and reproducing.
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