Is Social Darwinism a misnomer?

Thanks for the ask. 'Social Darwinism' is a complete misnomer - many of the people advocating it in the late-nineteenth and early twentieth centuries had clearly not understood his principles at all. read more

Yes, it is a misnomer, but everything about the entire concept of Darwinism both in biological sciences and in society, as a misunderstood mess. Darwinism is defined as numerous, successive, slight and random changes run through an elimination filter he called “selection”. read more

Social Darwinism, the theory that human groups and races are subject to the same laws of natural selection as Charles Darwin had perceived in plants and animals in nature. According to the theory, which was popular in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, the weak were diminished and their cultures delimited while the strong grew in power and in cultural influence over the weak. read more

The term Social Darwinism is used to refer to various ways of thinking and theories that emerged in the second half of the 19th century and tried to apply the evolutionary concept of natural selection to human society. read more