WORLD HISTORY

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.

Detailed explanation-2: -Darwin later used the term ‘survival of the fittest’ in his edition of On the Origin of Species. The theory of social Darwinism created the thinking that the strongest and the fittest would survive and flourish in society.

Detailed explanation-3: -Social Darwinism refers to a set of theories and social practices that apply Darwin’s natural selection to other domains, notably the development of societies. There are two notable early theories of social Darwinism: Spencerism and Taylorism.

Detailed explanation-4: -Herbert Spencer: Herbert Spencer built on Darwin’s framework of evolution, extrapolating it to the spheres of ethics and society. This is why Spencer’s theories are often called “social Darwinism.”