Susan Jacoby's Theory Of Social Darwinism

NAME: Tomas Lebedevas TITLE: Social Darwinism vs Darwinism After Darwin made his theory of evolution the theory of Social Darwinism was created. Susan Jacoby in her book, “the Age of American Unreason”, was very critical of this theory and attributed its popularity it to the rise anti-intellectualism and anti-intellectualism in the United States culture. She describes how the pseudoscience was created from the actual scientific theory of evolution in order to push American elitist views on why there is inequality in society.
Social Darwinism is the idea that people are successful in the modern world today, because they or more fit for survival than those who do not. The creed for Social Darwinism makes the case that social success equates