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- Are you confused by academic jargon? - Do you know your `discourse' from your `dialectic'? - Can you tell the difference between `anomie' and `alienation'? The Social Science Jargon Buster tackles the most confusing concepts in the social sciences, brea
Social Darwinism
Social Darwinism
Core definition
The application of Darwinian evolutionary theory to social phenomena.
Longer explanation
You know the show Survivor, where the goal is to ‘outwit, outplay, outlast’, well this show was clearly conceived by a social Darwinist. In the mid-nineteenth century, Charles Darwin argued that species evolve through natural selection where the fittest survive to pass ...
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