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WESTWARD EXPANSION INDUSTRIALIZATION URBANIZATION 1870 1900

AMERICAN INDUSTRY DEVELOPMENT IN THE GILDED AGE

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“Success and failure in business depends on how suitable a person is. Certain people are just plain weak, and their kind will be weeded out through natural selection. Just like it is in nature, it is in business. The strongest and smartest will rise to the top, and those of lesser intelligence are meant to be poor.” This quote represents the concept of ____
A
Resource Integration
B
Genetic Distribution Theory
C
Racial Segregation Theory
D
Social Darwinism
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -There are four principles at work in evolution-variation, inheritance, selection and time. These are considered the components of the evolutionary mechanism of natural selection.

Detailed explanation-2: -A study on human behavior has revealed that 90% of the population can be classified into four basic personality types: Optimistic, Pessimistic, Trusting and Envious. However, the latter of the four types, Envious, is the most common, with 30% compared to 20% for each of the other groups.

Detailed explanation-3: -Jung identified five prominent groups of instinctive factors: creativity, reflection, activity, sexuality and hunger.

Detailed explanation-4: -The essence of Darwin’s theory is that natural selection will occur if three conditions are met. These conditions, highlighted in bold above, are a struggle for existence, variation and inheritance. These are said to be the necessary and sufficient conditions for natural selection to occur.

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