Social Darwinism

the potential of Africa. They believed that it could benefit their country economically and politically, while they implemented ideas of social Darwinism on the cultures. Capitalistic societies encouraged establishments in other lands for economical purposes. The Industrial Revolution invented machinery and technology that…

natural selection, where people or other beings that can better adapt and adjust to an environment tend to outlive others who can’t adapt or adjust adequately, as well as survival of the fittest, the process of natural selection. The idea of Social Darwinism, the idea that natural selection and survival of the fittest applied to different classes or races that inherently made one class or race superior compared to another. The more conservative parties of the time definitely used this form of…

Nazi Germany was run under Hitler, who ran Germany as a totalitarian state. He had ambitious ideals of a racial utopia. Nazi Germany derived their racial ideologies from 'Pseudo-Science' and Social Darwinism, they adapted their own ideas for a utopia from this. These ideas included a superior race- the Aryans - and an inferior race- the Jewish, the gypsies and the black population. in order to fulfill their ideas and manifest their utopia Nazi Germany implemented both positive and negative…

Social Darwinism, Populism, and Progressivism The sweeping changes the United States experienced during the late nineteenth century and early twentieth century occurred throughout four “revolutions,” concerning both social and economic sectors. The first of these transformed a subsistence agricultural system into a cash-crop, profit based system that exposed “farmers to markets, the business cycle, monopolies, and politics” (688). The second revolution saw the formation of a working class,…

In 1892, corporations and business’ were booming due to recent transitions into an industrial society. The transcontinental railroad was allowing nationwide interaction and corporations were ascending. With the ideology of laissez-faire and social Darwinism, the government was not intervening with any inequalities of the time. Business’ were taking complete advantage and workers suffered severely long work days with little profit. Besides few, farmers were struggling due to high tariffs, crop…

Although in the United States the development of "anthropological" thought had been developed by different authors in the nineteenth century under the perspective called “Social Darwinism”, it is in the early twentieth century when Anthropology emerges as a modern discipline with a theoretical and methodological corpus that allowed its professionalization and inclusion within the university programs of the country. The greatest exponent of anthropology in the United States during the first half…

businesses, and an outpouring of new inventions. These inventions and industrial advancements allowed for the rise of big businesses. The growth of industrial capitalism had political and social effects. The rich got richer while the poor and middle class struggled to create civil services and end the corruption. Social Darwinism is a key contributor in this time as it shows that the fittest in this case wealthiest survive and the low and middle classes struggle. Andrew Carnegie got this, but…

the doctor prescribing more drugs because the previous ones were “ineffective” (Angell, XXI). People avoid purchasing these drugs, all because of the price settings. So would this AIDS cure really be saving people or making the problem worse? Social Darwinism is a familiar practice for these people. A branch or survival of the fittest, “that would make Darwin throw-up” (Crash Course US History #23). The drug to cure Hepatitis C alone costs 84,000 U.S dollars (USD), more than the highest…

named Sarah Collins was brutally murdered by her husband, Patrick Collins, in the cloakroom of the kindergarten at which she was a janitress. In his novel, McTeague, Frank Norris eerily echoed this case, which was claimed to be evidence of social Darwinism. The novel, named after the protagonist, is centered on a man named McTeague, a hulking and dim-witted dentist, and the events that befall him and those around him. Though the novel initially met much resistance and little success, it…

The Naturalism in Jack London’s The Law of Life In “The Law of Life”, Jack London expressed a life law by using old Koshooh’s whole life experience. Jack London was a famous naturalist novelist in the 19th century, and he was greatly influenced by Darwin's "survival of the fittest" and Spencer's evolution theory (Donald, Pizer)从哪里开始quote呢？加一个mark. He thought that nature decided the fate of mankind, and he believed that human should fight with brutal nature. In this story, 自然主义表现得非常清晰it mainly…