Question

In what ways do progressives differ from people who believe in Social Darwinism?

Answer 1

Answer: The correct answer is : Social Darwinism is a theory that is based on the "survival of the fittest". People who had wealth, social status and property were considered fit. Social Darwinism shows the inequality in the natural process and speaks to the economic followers. They thought that the rich won a natural competition and owed nothing to the poor.

Progressives rely on initiatives to reform and update society. It is a political movement that rejects social Darwinism. Progressives believed that society's problems such as poverty, class differentiation, violence and racism could be treated by providing security, education and a good job. They thought that government could be a tool for change. Progressivism ended with the First World War

Answer 2

Progressive has differed from Social Darwinism in the way that Progressivism is taking effect from the past in analyzing of culture, searching to attach different trends in technology and social rules with present standards of living and universal social well-being to identify what results on progress. While Social Darwinism is opposing social reform and amends as futile and counter-productive, insisting that the difficulty was intrinsic in those who are feeble, incapacitated and so could not be fixed by progressive reforms.