WESTWARD EXPANSION INDUSTRIALIZATION URBANIZATION 1870 1900
SECOND INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION
Question
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Survival of the weakest
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That society puts certain people in certain jobs
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Survival of the fittest
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That Darwin makes social situations better by placing weaker people in charge
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Detailed explanation-1: -Social Darwinists believe in “survival of the fittest”-the idea that certain people become powerful in society because they are innately better. Social Darwinism has been used to justify imperialism, racism, eugenics and social inequality at various times over the past century and a half.
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.
Detailed explanation-3: -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-4: -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-5: -Answer and Explanation: Natural selection is another phrase used to describe survival of the fittest. These terms align with the idea that the strongest will survive and have come about because of Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution.