Facing History and Ourselves

Race and Membership

Program Overview : Social Darwinism : Connections






Some questions and discussion points for you and your students...
When Darwin used the word change, some social Darwinists thought he meant progress. When Darwin described an organism as different from earlier ones, they assumed he meant the new organism was better. How do you account for such errors in reading? How do the times in which we live shape the ways we understand ideas? What other factors shape our thinking?





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