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The Principles of Sociology
Volume: 2, pt.5 Publisher: New York D. Appleton Subjects: Sociology Notes: This is an OCR reprint. There may be numerous typos or missing text. There are no illustrations or indexes. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. You can also preview the book there.
- GenresSociology
Hardcover
First published January 1, 1896
About the author
Herbert Spencer
1,687 books260 followersHerbert Spencer was an English philosopher, biologist, anthropologist, sociologist, and prominent classical liberal political theorist of the Victorian era.
Spencer developed an all-embracing conception of evolution as the progressive development of the physical world, biological organisms, the human mind, and human culture and societies. He was "an enthusiastic exponent of evolution" and even "wrote about evolution before Darwin did." As a polymath, he contributed to a wide range of subjects, including ethics, religion, anthropology, economics, political theory, philosophy, literature, biology, sociology, and psychology. During his lifetime he achieved tremendous authority, mainly in English-speaking academia. "The only other English philosopher to have achieved anything like such widespread popularity was Bertrand Russell, and that was in the 20th century." Spencer was "the single most famous European intellectual in the closing decades of the nineteenth century" but his influence declined sharply after 1900; "Who now reads Spencer?" asked Talcott Parsons in 1937.
Spencer is best known for coining the expression "survival of the fittest", which he did in Principles of Biology (1864), after reading Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species. This term strongly suggests natural selection, yet as Spencer extended evolution into realms of sociology and ethics, he also made use of Lamarckism.
Spencer developed an all-embracing conception of evolution as the progressive development of the physical world, biological organisms, the human mind, and human culture and societies. He was "an enthusiastic exponent of evolution" and even "wrote about evolution before Darwin did." As a polymath, he contributed to a wide range of subjects, including ethics, religion, anthropology, economics, political theory, philosophy, literature, biology, sociology, and psychology. During his lifetime he achieved tremendous authority, mainly in English-speaking academia. "The only other English philosopher to have achieved anything like such widespread popularity was Bertrand Russell, and that was in the 20th century." Spencer was "the single most famous European intellectual in the closing decades of the nineteenth century" but his influence declined sharply after 1900; "Who now reads Spencer?" asked Talcott Parsons in 1937.
Spencer is best known for coining the expression "survival of the fittest", which he did in Principles of Biology (1864), after reading Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species. This term strongly suggests natural selection, yet as Spencer extended evolution into realms of sociology and ethics, he also made use of Lamarckism.
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December 7, 2021
Povinná četba dvou kapitol - o povaze sociologie a psychologie, do mého univerzitního kurzu Dějiny scg. teorií 19. st. Autor byl sociální darwinista - propagoval myšlenku sociálního evolucionismu, tzn. nejlépe se ve společnosti bude žít těm nejpřizpůsobivějším ke svému sociálnímu prostředí. Další myšlenky: liberální (průmyslový) stát je lepším státem, vysoká přizpůsobivost nemusí není nutně spojena s vysokou inteligencí, fyzická stavba člověka (pohlaví) má značný vliv na naší psychologickou stavbu a determinuje naše sociální jednání ve společnosti, přirovnává společnost k lidskému tělu: společnosti se skládá z mnoha institucí (tj. rodina, školská soustava, atp., Každá má svou funkci) - stejně tak jako lidské tělo se skládá z mnoha orgánů, který každý má svou jedinečnou funkci.
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