What's Wrong with a Little Social Darwinism (In Our Historiography)?
What's Wrong with a Little Social Darwinism (In Our Historiography)?
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What's Wrong with a Little Social Darwinism (In Our Historiography)?
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Society for History Education
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The History teacher (Long Beach, Calif.), 2009-08, Vol.42 (4), p.403-423
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English
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The simplest and most widely held definition of Social Darwinism is the application of concepts of biological evolution to social and moral development. More specifically, it is social evolution through "survival of the fittest" in a "struggle for existence" in which the strong prevail and the weak are defeated and disappear. Social Darwinism theor...
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What's Wrong with a Little Social Darwinism (In Our Historiography)?
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TN_cdi_eric_primary_EJ856338
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0018-2745
