Social Darwinism Was

question 71

Multiple Choice

Social Darwinism was

• A)the application of the principle of organic evolution to the social order.
• B)an effort to explain the problems of society by psychological means.
• C)an explanation, sociologically, of Darwin's biological ideas.
• D)advocated by Nietzsche.
• E)condemned by Freud.

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