Development of Sociology IHSS Blog

 Jayla Balderas 

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11 October 2020


                                         Development of Sociology IHSS Blog  

                                         Charles Darwin and Emile Durkheim 

Charles Darwin was a British Naturalist who rooted the idea of “Survival of the Fittest.” He published his idea of Evolution but didn't have a degree or education in genetics. All of his theories were based purely on observation. Writing about natural selection would bring his ideas a long way, including creating the foundations for modern evolutionary studies. Through his travels, he started to notice that different animals or more specifically birds had different beaks depending on the food they needed to survive. This launched his research into animal evolution. 

How does his work contribute to sociology? His ideas have been used throughout history mostly in a political atmosphere. Used by influential people to persuade a different point of view when coming to social inequality, racism, and other social problems. The bare bones of the theory is basically believing one group will always be better than another. The lesser will either need to learn to adapt to one's current environment or essentially die out.

If you want to put the idea of The survival of the fittest into a sociology context, this would look different in every decade and depending on what social class you fall into. 

Emile Durkheim was a french social philosopher. When Emile Durkheim was a child he held religious beliefs, those faded aways as his ideas started to focus on moral reform. Devoting his life to understanding how society functioned by delving his time and research to social constructs and how society defined social values and norms. In both a modern and traditional setting. Many believed that people such as Durkheim and others with his mindset created the earliest ideas of sociology after the French Revolution and during the French enlightenment, writers and philosophers who decided to a take a closer look into capitalism, and how and what could hold together a society with its new-found individualism. 

Peyre, Henri M. “Émile Durkheim.” Encyclopædia Britannica, Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc., 11 Apr. 2020, www.britannica.com/biography/Emile-Durkheim.

 The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica. “Harriet Martineau.” Encyclopædia Britannica, Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc., 23 June 2020, www.britannica.com/biography/Harriet-Martineau.

 History.com Editors. “Social Darwinism.” History.com, A&E Television Networks, 6 Apr. 2018, www.history.com/topics/early-20th-century-us/social-darwinism

Cunningham, Conor. “Survival of the Fittest.” Encyclopædia Britannica, Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc., 11 Feb. 2020, www.britannica.com/science/survival-of-the-fittest.

 


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