Industrialization brought in it's wake a middle class whose values and beliefs facilitated the accumulation of capital and it's continued reinvestment. In the new industrial system, the individual had to learn that it was okay to aspire to a better social status, wealth and prestige, and that these rewards could be acquired through hard work. Thus, the profit motive and the work ethic were given positive social value.
Natural Selection is the primary mechanism within the scientific theory of evolution. Mutations create the genetic variation on which natural selection acts. It is important to note that the term "natural selection" is often used in the inaccurate metaphorical sense as having causal status and has been used to justify social evolutionism.
Social Evolutionism is an anthropological and sociological social theory that holds that societies progress through stages of increasing development, i.e. are influenced by the process of social progress. Thus it deals with the......
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