1. Charles Darwin was quoted as saying: “ __________________________________________ ___________________________________________ _______________________” Now what would happen if you took the basic principles of natural selection and applied them to our social world? Answer – _______________________________

2. SOCIAL DARWINISM

3. Social Darwinism ___________________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________. The theory was chiefly expounded by Herbert Spencer, whose ethical philosophies always held an elitist view and received a boost from the application of Darwinian ideas such as adaptation and natural selection. The only real connection between Darwinism and Social Darwinism is the name.

4. ________________, the father of Social Darwinism, was thinking in terms of elitist, “___________________________ ____________________________________________________. However, Spencer quickly adapted _________________ ____________________________________________________. The concept of adaptation allowed him to claim that the rich and powerful were better adapted to the social and economic climate of the time, and the concept of natural selection allowed him to argue that it was natural, normal, and proper for the strong to thrive at the expense of the weak. SPENCER AND DARWINISM

5. However, Spencer did not just present his theories as placing humans on a parallel with nature. ____ _______________________________________________. Indeed, some extreme Social Darwinists argued that it was morally incorrect to assist those weaker than oneself, since that would be promoting the ______________________ ______________________ ______________________.

6. Social Darwinism was used to justify numerous exploits which we classify as of dubious moral value today. ________________ was seen as natural and inevitable, and given justification through Social Darwinian ethics - people saw _______________ as being weaker and more unfit to survive, and therefore __________________________ _______________________________________________________. Social Darwinism applied to __________________as well; the argument went that the strongest military would win, and would therefore be the most fit. Casualties on the losing side, of course, were written off as the natural result of their unfit status. APPLICATION OF SOCIAL DARWINISM

7. ___________________________________, of course. It provided a justification for the more exploitative forms of capitalism in which workers were paid sometimes pennies a day for long hours of backbreaking labor. __________________________________________________ _____________________________, and implied that the rich need not donate money to the poor or less fortunate, since such people were less fit anyway.

8. In its most extreme forms, Social Darwinism has been used to justify _________________aimed at ______________________________________; such programs were sometimes accompanied by ___________________________________________________. The American eugenics movement was relatively popular between about ___________, during which ___________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________ __________________________________. Social Darwinist ideas, though in different forms, were also applied by the ____________________in Germany to justify their eugenics programs

9. Social Darwinism's makes the faulty assumption that _____ _____________________________. In other words, it falls prey to the belief that just because something takes place in nature, it must be a moral paradigm for humans to follow. Many negative reactions to Darwinism come from the confusion of ___________________________________________ _______________________________________________________. In reality, the two have very little in common, aside from their name and a few basic concepts, which Social Darwinists misapplied PROBLEMS WITH SOCIAL DARWINISM

10. Social Darwinism and the link to EUGENICS. ARTICLE – BUCK VS BELL