SOCB42H3 Study Guide - Cheyenne Military Societies, Soil Fertility, Individualism
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Spencer is born in 1820 england, derby. Educated at home with an emphasis on math and science. Felt himself n qualified for college, so became engineer until_______ Belief in ability that science can explain everything including society and people. He was in a search for general laws that could explain everything, including the social world. Evolution is at the heart of his basic social theory. Spencer saw the universe as engaged in a constant process of evolution and dissolution. When people/ groups come together, meet and merge. They differentiate /specialize when they meet to something more complex, they don"t keep going the way they were. They meet, they merge and you get differentiation as a result. Evolution random mutation occur, people that can survive do and evolve with the best fit genetics and then evolve in to some next shit. 1 anti government individualism - because everything is going in the right direction anyway, government intervention can only hurt society.
