ANTB19H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Social Evolution, Unilineality, Ethnography

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He is interested in how people outside of him think. 19th century anthropology: unilinear evolution: malinowski imagined his approach as being an active rejection of unilineal evolutionism, his work is the emergence of a modern discipline. Herbert spencer: religion and faith were being profoundly questioned by a new scientific gaze, herbert spencer offered up theories/laws about society and the evolution of society that were easily substitutable for religion. These were laws about how society evolved: he"s best known for coining the concept survival of the fittest . Darwin"s origin of species and found it extremely compelling. He suggests natural selection, yet he extends evolution from the natural world into the world of sociology and the realm of ethics. In contrast to darwin, spencer thought that evolution had a direction and endpoint. He imagined that this endpoint would be a final state of equilibrium.

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