In the following it will be argued we can relate them socially and explore the differences of biological and social constructs. ... Race is now widely recognized to be a social construct. The American Anthropological Association statement on race (1998) states that the concept of race was a social system created as a means of referring to populations brought together during the 18th century in colonial America. ... With this, as stated in the American anthropological association (1998) statement on race came the knowledge that the human population are not biologically distinct groups. ... This...

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After reviewing the current literature on social Darwinism it is not clear that there was a cohesive movement of social Darwinism in America at all. When most authors were social theories that most consider to be social Darwinism they did not include the actual term "social Darwinism.... Richard Hofstadter presented social Darwinism as a convergence of evolution and social theory. ... This fact made it easy to tie his arguments in with social Darwinism when he began to write on social and ethical questions. ... The social ideas of Spencer and Huxley gave rise to other social Darwinists s...

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Then in 1876 he accepted the chair of Forensic Medicine and Hygiene at the University of Turin, where later he became the professor of Criminal Anthropology. ... In these area it was oblivious that the Atavisms were producing offspring that were showing the same negative social qualities they posses. ... This would call for governments to implement programs of social and moral improvements through breeding. ... At the international congress of criminal anthropology in 1889 French delegates opposed his theories. The French believed the origins of crime was related to social condition...

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One evening, Sally Hawkins, a Catholic commoner living in the Netherlands, went to a nearby meeting place to have a cup of tea with some friends. While at her table, Sally overheard a group of men discussing something she'd never heard about; a theory called Darwinism. Intrigued, she went over to the men and asked what this was which they talking about. When they shared with Sally that Darwin's theory proposes an evolutionary process for all living things, progressing from stage to stage in an adaptive manner, she angrily threw her tea cup on the ground, and walked out of the establi...

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