social darwinism in English

noun
1
the theory that individuals, groups, and peoples are subject to the same Darwinian laws of natural selection as plants and animals. Now largely discredited, social Darwinism was advocated by Herbert Spencer and others in the late 19th and early 20th centuries and was used to justify political conservatism, imperialism, and racism and to discourage intervention and reform.
Making the situation worse were the quasi-scientific theories of social Darwinism , which helped justify Congress's refusal to grant full citizenship to the territorial inhabitants.

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1. 24 Whenever biology meets behaviour the spectre of social Darwinism and eugenics looms menacingly in the background.

2. 25 If so, then Social Darwinism would work just as selectively in government where the bureaucratic struggle is reputedly severe.

3. 26 In the early twentieth century, Malthusian ideas on population control were linked to theories of eugenics and social Darwinism.

4. ‘Social Darwinism Counterpoises superstition/ritual with science/technology and darker skin/exotic clothes with lighter skin / Western clothes.’ ‘He Counterpoises the harsh reds and oranges on the right - the side of the tug and the setting sun - with beautiful pale and ghostly harmonies on the left - the side of the old ship and a sickle