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  2. Herbert Spencer - Wikipedia

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    For many, the name of Herbert Spencer is virtually synonymous with Social Darwinism, a social theory that applies the law of the survival of the fittest to society and is integrally related to the nineteenth-century rise in scientific racism.

  3. The Man Versus the State - Wikipedia

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    The Man Versus the State is a work of political theory by Herbert Spencer.. It was first published in book form in 1884 by Williams and Norgate, London and Edinburgh, from articles previously published in The Contemporary Review. [1]

  4. Social Darwinism - Wikipedia

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    In many ways, Spencer's theory of cosmic evolution has much more in common with the works of Lamarck and Auguste Comte's positivism than with Darwin's. Jeff Riggenbach argues that Spencer's view was that culture and education made a sort of Lamarckism possible [1] and notes that Herbert Spencer was a proponent of private charity. [1]

  5. Survival of the fittest - Wikipedia

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    Herbert Spencer coined the phrase "survival of the fittest". "Survival of the fittest" [1] is a phrase that originated from Darwinian evolutionary theory as a way of describing the mechanism of natural selection. The biological concept of fitness is defined as reproductive success. In Darwinian terms, the phrase is best understood as "survival ...

  6. Structural functionalism - Wikipedia

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    Herbert Spencer He was in many ways the first true sociological functionalist. [ 12 ] In fact, while Durkheim is widely considered the most important functionalist among positivist theorists, it is known that much of his analysis was culled from reading Spencer's work, especially his Principles of Sociology (1874–96).

  7. Social Statics - Wikipedia

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    Economist Murray Rothbard called Social Statics "the greatest single work of libertarian political philosophy ever written." [3]In Lochner v.New York, Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., dissenting from the Supreme Court's holding that state legislation forbidding bakers from working more than ten hours a day or sixty hours a week violated the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment to ...

  8. Sociological theory - Wikipedia

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    A sociological theory is a supposition that intends to consider, analyze, ... known as the organic or biological analogy [14] (popularized by Herbert Spencer), ...

  9. Superorganism - Wikipedia

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    The 19th-century thinker Herbert Spencer coined the term super-organic to focus on social organization (the first chapter of his Principles of Sociology is entitled "Super-organic Evolution" [14]), though this was apparently a distinction between the organic and the social, not an identity: Spencer explored the holistic nature of society as a social organism while distinguishing the ways in ...