1. Social Darwinism and Eugenics
Social Darwinism and Eugenics of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries are often seen as theories based on scientific knowledge. However this is not wholly true. While eugenics was often loosely based on scientific theory, social Darwinism was not at all. One would be hard-pressed to find any science in social Darwinist thought. 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. ...
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