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Social Darwinism: Science and Myth in Anglo-American Social Thought The Comparative Reception of Darwinism
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This article is published in History of Political Economy.The article was published on 1982-03-01. It has received 19 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Universal Darwinism & Darwinism.read more
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Built for speed, not for comfort. Darwinian theory and human culture.
Peter J. Richerson,Robert Boyd +1 more
TL;DR: It is argued that Darwin's theory was rather modern in respects that conflicted with Victorian sensibilities and that he and his few close followers failed to influence any of the social sciences.
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Urban ‘regeneration’: reflections on a metaphor:
TL;DR: In practice, however, the more conservative meanings, deriving from individualistic spiritualities and psychologisms, sociological organicism and statist interventionism, remain dominant as mentioned in this paper.
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From Kidd to Dewey: the origin and meaning of ‘social efficiency’
TL;DR: This article investigated the origin of the term "social efficiency" in education and found that it began in the UK with the writing of Benjamin Kidd and was used by a group of US educators who aimed at creating a technocratic school and a conservative society of social stability and harmony.
Metaphors in the construction of theory: Ramus, Peirce and the American mind
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors argue for the mutual impenetration of logical, legal and scientific metaphors and determine the role played by them in the construction of theory in American ideology.
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Built for speed, not for comfort. Darwinian theory and human culture.
Peter J. Richerson,Robert Boyd +1 more
TL;DR: It is argued that Darwin's theory was rather modern in respects that conflicted with Victorian sensibilities and that he and his few close followers failed to influence any of the social sciences.
Journal ArticleDOI
Urban ‘regeneration’: reflections on a metaphor:
TL;DR: In practice, however, the more conservative meanings, deriving from individualistic spiritualities and psychologisms, sociological organicism and statist interventionism, remain dominant as mentioned in this paper.
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From Kidd to Dewey: the origin and meaning of ‘social efficiency’
TL;DR: This article investigated the origin of the term "social efficiency" in education and found that it began in the UK with the writing of Benjamin Kidd and was used by a group of US educators who aimed at creating a technocratic school and a conservative society of social stability and harmony.
Metaphors in the construction of theory: Ramus, Peirce and the American mind
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors argue for the mutual impenetration of logical, legal and scientific metaphors and determine the role played by them in the construction of theory in American ideology.