Meaning Of The Word Social Darwinism

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social Darwinism in British English
the application, chiefly in the late 19th cent., of Darwinism to the understanding of human society
noun: a 19th-century theory, inspired by Darwinism, by which the social order is accounted as the product of natural selection of those persons best suited to existing living conditions and in accord with which a position of laissez-faire is advocated
noun: the theory, propounded chiefly in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, that races, societies, and classes are contingent on and a result of Darwinian laws of natural selection; used to justify imperialism and laissez-faire economics

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