Social Darwinism in European and American Thought, 1860-1945: Nature as Model and Nature as ThreatCambridge University Press, 1997 M03 13 - 344 páginas This wide-ranging study focuses upon the controversies surrounding the meaning and significance of Social Darwinism. It clarifies the nature of Social Darwinism and its relationship to the ideas of Darwin, Lamarck and Herbert Spencer. After examining the development of Social Darwinist theories by a number of European and American thinkers, Mike Hawkins explores the use of these theories in a number of ideological debates and movements of the period 1860-1945. These include socio-political reform, national and racial conflict, eugenics, the position of women and Nazism/Fascism. The aim is to illuminate, through detailed comparative analyses, both the flexibility and the limits of Social Darwinism - limits which derive from the view of nature which lies at the very heart of Social Darwinism. The study concludes with a discussion of modern sociobiology in order to assess the continuing vitality of Social Darwinism. |
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... sociologist ' Vacher de Lapouge was convinced that the rigorous application of Darwinism to social and political change exposed the chimerical nature of progress . demonstrated in later chapters , Lapouge was by no means alone in this ...
... sociologist ' Vacher de Lapouge was convinced that the rigorous application of Darwinism to social and political change exposed the chimerical nature of progress . demonstrated in later chapters , Lapouge was by no means alone in this ...
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... sociologist , Jacques Novicow ( 1849-1912 ) , who proclaimed Social Darwinism to be a doctrine which believed human progress had occurred through ' collec- tive homicide'.16 He then proceeded to label as Social Darwinist anybody who ...
... sociologist , Jacques Novicow ( 1849-1912 ) , who proclaimed Social Darwinism to be a doctrine which believed human progress had occurred through ' collec- tive homicide'.16 He then proceeded to label as Social Darwinist anybody who ...
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... sociology and political science , due to the absence of detailed studies of certain key contributors . Some ... sociologist Max Weber ( 1864–1920 ) is also a complex one . Weber's inaugural address of 1895 at the University of ...
... sociology and political science , due to the absence of detailed studies of certain key contributors . Some ... sociologist Max Weber ( 1864–1920 ) is also a complex one . Weber's inaugural address of 1895 at the University of ...
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... sociology.42 Weber perhaps furnishes an example of an attempt to emancipate sociology from the influence of pervasive biological models of social relationships . This would certainly be a valid assessment of the work of the French ...
... sociology.42 Weber perhaps furnishes an example of an attempt to emancipate sociology from the influence of pervasive biological models of social relationships . This would certainly be a valid assessment of the work of the French ...
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... sociologist Lester Frank Ward ( 1841-1913 ) . Ward was critical of the use made of Darwinism by apologists for ... Sociology ( New York : Macmillan , 1903 ) , 184 , 238-40 . 49 50 Ibid . , 323 et seq . Ward's ambivalence towards ...
... sociologist Lester Frank Ward ( 1841-1913 ) . Ward was critical of the use made of Darwinism by apologists for ... Sociology ( New York : Macmillan , 1903 ) , 184 , 238-40 . 49 50 Ibid . , 323 et seq . Ward's ambivalence towards ...
Contenido
Defining Social Darwinism | 21 |
The distinctiveness of Social Darwinism | 39 |
Pioneers | 59 |
The emergence of Social Darwinism | 61 |
Herbert Spencer and cosmic evolution | 82 |
Social Darwinism in the USA | 104 |
Social Darwinism in France and Germany | 123 |
Case studies | 149 |
Races nations and the struggle for existence | 184 |
The eugenic conscience | 216 |
Social Darwinism nature and sexual difference | 249 |
Nazism Fascism and Social Darwinism | 272 |
Social Darwinism old and new the case of sociobiology | 292 |
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Reform Darwinism | 151 |
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