What is social Darwinism and was it being used during this time period to justify the rich and poor?

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Callingshotgun · Answer 1 · 2019-05-26T18:23:47+0000

Social Darwinism is a name given to various theories of society which emerged in the United Kingdom, North America, and Western Europe in the 1870s, and which claim to apply biological concepts of natural selection and survival of the fittest to sociology and politics.

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