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. 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: -Social Darwinism: Herbert Spencer Spencer’s most important sociological theory was his theory of Social Darwinism (1896).

Detailed explanation-3: -Whether used to justify laissez-faire or activist public policies, social Darwinism provided a vocabulary and set of concepts that facilitated the emergence of the social sciences and their application to such pressing problems as poverty and social justice.

Detailed explanation-4: -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-5: -The theory held that due to natural selection, the most intelligent, industrious, and productive people would grow wealthy and survive while the uneducated and lazy would remain poor and die off.