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5 days ago · Herbert Spencer, English sociologist, philosopher, and early advocate of the theory of evolution. He advocated the preeminence of the individual over society and of science over religion and is remembered for his doctrine of social Darwinism. His magnum opus was The Synthetic Philosophy (1896).
- Harry Burrows Acton
- In his higher education Herbert Spencer was largely self-taught. He declined an offer from his uncle, the Rev. Thomas Spencer, to send him to the U...
- Herbert Spencer worked briefly as a schoolteacher and was later employed as a railway engineer (1837–41) and as a writer and subeditor (copy editor...
- Herbert Spencer’s major writings included The Proper Sphere of Government (1843), Social Statics (1851), Education: Intellectual, Moral, and Physic...
- Herbert Spencer is famous for his doctrine of social Darwinism, which asserted that the principles of evolution, including natural selection, apply...
1 day ago · Maximilian Carl Emil Weber (/ ˈ v eɪ b ər /; German: [maks ˈveːbɐ]; 21 April 1864 – 14 June 1920) was a German sociologist, historian, jurist, and political economist who was one of the central figures in the development of sociology and the social sciences more generally.
2 days ago · Death, the total cessation of life processes that eventually occurs in all living organisms. The state of human death has always been obscured by mystery and superstition, and its precise definition remains controversial, differing according to culture and legal systems.
1 day ago · Sociology has a growing body of literature on the sociology of immortality, which details the different attempts at reaching immortality (whether actual or symbolic) and their prominence in the 21st century.
1 day ago · Freud, who had called Fliess "the Kepler of biology", later concluded that a combination of a homoerotic attachment and the residue of his "specifically Jewish mysticism" lay behind his loyalty to his Jewish friend and his consequent overestimation of both his theoretical and clinical work. Their friendship came to an acrimonious end with ...
4 days ago · Death should be thought of as the irreversible loss of such functions. The remainder of this article first explores the recurrent problems involved in seeking a biological definition of death. It then examines the implications of these problems in relation to human death.
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5 days ago · ANS: B. Thanatology is the study of the effects of death and dying, especially the investigation of ways to lessen the suffering and address the needs of the terminally ill and their survivors. Because there were different beliefs in the definition of death, the _____ Act (UDDA) was approved in 1981 to give a consistent definition. a.
