Rethinking Sociology, Social Darwinism and Aboriginal Peoples

Darwinism and social Darwinism.

Employment and Education among Aboriginal Peoples

The troubling economic outcomes faced by many of Canada’s Aboriginal peoples are well documented. The most recent release of the 2011 National Household Survey (NHS) revealed that the gaps in labour market outcomes between Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal communities continue to persist. Worse still, the progress made since 1996 in closing those gaps has stagnated from the 2006 Census (Table 1). T...

Racism and Social Darwinism

also there was a tendency to borrow heavily from the evolutionary theories of Herbert Spencer and Charles Darwin (‘survival of the fittest’ is a vulgarisation of a more complex theory); especially, they drew on the idea of struggle and survival as the natural mechanisms for maintaining and improving the ‘stock’—i.e., genetic characteristics—of human beings. This was the origins of so-called ‘sc...

Social Darwinism and psychopathology

In recent years, aspects of Darwinism have been widely discussed in psychiatry to explain the origins of mood disorders [1-3]. Authors were particularly focusing on the psychopathology of depression, while other considerations in the field of affective disorders have more broadly included the phenomena of mania [4] and temperament [5]. This paper will review aspects of Darwinism in the psychopa...

Religious Sociology Rethinking Durkheim ' s Intellectual Development

In the first part of this paper I established Durkheim’s intense dissatisfaction with the materialism of his earlier work. I demonstrated also how the series of critical reviews of this work embarrassed Durkheim and crystallized his desire to revise his theory. Finally, I showed how a much more subjectivist theory emerged in the 18931896 period. In this second part, I argue that these developme...