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Abstract

Basically 'Social Darwinism' was a description of political ideology that it justified a sense of superiority of the propertied classes as consider Darwin's theory in relation to progress of human society. 'Social Darwinism' emergenced in the last nineteenth century, after this it used to social theory or social policy which was interpreted the presented economic, political, and social situation in Europe. And from now on World War I , 'Social Darwinism' declined. Concretely, 'Social Darwinism' justified a self-interest of the propertary classes as regard the social discriminatary as the dispensation of nature, juxtaposed with dissolution process of the classical Liberalist. Also it showed a tendency to inhumanity as supported racial discrimination and imperialism for use a determinism of heredity. In this paper, on the basis of ideological aspect of the 'Social Darwinism', I examined historical development of 'Social Darwinism'. In this respect, in chapter II, on the basis of Charles Darwin and Herbert Spencer's relationship and social darwinism was conservative ideology, I examined social darwinism in relation to laissez-faire capitalism. In Chapter ill, on the basis of social darwinism justified a social discrimination as a inhumane ideology, I examined social darwinism in relation to eugenics. In chapter IV, on the basis of a tendency to racial discrimination, I examined social darwinism in relation to racism and imperialism. The conclusion to which this investigation comes that 'Social Darwinism' was a conservative ideology supported the status quo of laissez-faire capitalism and was a inhumane ideology which justified social and racial discrimination of the human world.