Gabriel Chibuzor

Last Name 1 Student’s Name Professor’s Name Course Number Date DISCUSSION ON “HOW SOCIAL DARWINISM SHAPED MANY AMERICANS’ ATTITUDE TOWARDS INEQUALITY” INTRODUCTION “Social Darwinism is the application of Darwin's biological theories to the social and cultural realm” (Winlow, 2020). CONTENT . According to William Graham Sumner in his book, he referred to social darwinism as a philosophy that is bothered on “survival of the fittest”—the notion that a group of people happens to be leading in society because they are inherently superior. He reasoned that the society must give regards to the fittest and anything less will be unfair to the law of nature and liberty. He was referring to the American people who had just recovered from economic losses and needed to acquire more powers to revitalize and turn into a leading nation in the world. He tried to justify that Social inequality cannot be ruled out: that the course of natural variety acting on diverse people in the masses would give rise to the survival of the fittest. CONCLUSION Last Name 2 Conclusively, this piece has the possibility of making people consider that the survival of the fittest is a fair judgment: that one needs to be industrious and get the paramount device in order to make it in life, and that this is the fairest way to improve the society. Last Name 3 REFERENCES William Graham Sumner on social Darwinism.Ca.1880s. The American Yawp Reader. http://www.americanyawp.com/reader/16-capital-and-labor/william-graham-sumner-onsocial-darwnism-ca-1880s/ Heather Winlow, in International Encyclopedia of Human Geography Second Edition 2020, https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/social-sciences/social-darwinism