USA HISTORY

WESTWARD EXPANSION INDUSTRIALIZATION URBANIZATION 1870 1900

ROBBER BARONS

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
“Society advances where its fittest members are allowed to assert their fitness with the least hindrance (Herbert Spencer)” What philosophy is described by the quote above?
A
Social Democracy
B
Social Realism
C
Social Darwinism
D
Social Gospel
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -Herbert Spencer based his concept of social evolution, popularly known as “Social Darwinism, ” on individual competition. Spencer believed that competition was “the law of life” and resulted in the “survival of the fittest."

Detailed explanation-2: -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-3: -According to Spencer, a society grows through economic and other acts of spontaneous cooperation by gregarious and social individuals, who are themselves displaying what is called a “social self-consciousness” (Spencer, 1859, p. 140–141; Spencer, 1873, p.

Detailed explanation-4: -In teaching methods, Spencer advocated the automatic learning based on students and emphasized the role of interest in the process of teaching, In the aspect of moral education, Spencer put forward that individual self preservation is the most important moral principle and coined the moral evolution formula.

Detailed explanation-5: -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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