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Social degeneration was a widely influential concept at the interface of the social and biological sciences in the 18th and 19th centuries. During the...

Degeneration (Entartung, 1892–1893) is a two-volume work of social criticism by Max Nordau. Within this work he attacks what he believed to be degenerate...

Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon were believers in the "Degeneration theory" of racial origins. The theory claims that races can degenerate into "primitive"...

the time, mental deficiency encompassed all degrees of educational and social deficiency. Within the concept of mental deficiency, researchers established...

carried the day. After 1915, the Jukes came to symbolize the futility of social change and the need for eugenic segregations and sterilization". American...

theory Reform movement Reformism Revolution Secularization Social conservatism Social degeneration Social development theory Social movement Social progress...

known as the Society for the Study of Social Biology from 1973–2008, and the Society for Biodemography and Social Biology from 2008–2019. The Society was...

another, usually simpler, class Degeneracy (graph theory), a measure of the sparseness of a graph Degeneration (algebraic geometry), the act of taking a limit...

Sociocultural evolution, sociocultural evolutionism or social evolution are theories of sociobiology and cultural evolution that describe how societies...

progress itself must inevitably result in degeneration. "Borrowing from Charles Darwin's theory of evolution, social Darwinists believed that societies, as...

family information survey forms as: To make an inventory and record of the socially important hereditary traits and tendencies of the individual. To point...

Though Grant was extremely influential in legislating his view of racial theory, he began to fall out of favor in the United States in the early 1930s....

audience had "good genes". He then included a statement about racehorse theory, stating again that Minnesota had "good genes". “You have good genes, you...

Scientific racism Social degeneration theory Social purity movement Feeble-minded Racial nationalism "Race suicide" Sterilization of Latinas Sterilization...

Grant expounds a theory of Nordic superiority, claiming that the "Nordic race" is inherently superior to other human "races". The theory and the book were...

to its ability to encompass both scientific and natural views of life. Socially, this attachment is not important because it is a bond between child and...

wrote papers with her husband supporting the idea that Mendelian genetics theories applied to humans. Supported by the argument that the eugenics office would...

demographic and population changes, as well as concerns over the economy and social well-being, rather than scientific genetics. The American eugenics movement...

in Vienna, Austria. He was an influential figure in the field of degeneration theory during the mid-19th century. Morel was born in Vienna, Austria in...

all, Davenport’s efforts served to provide scientific justification to social policies he supported, and immigration was one way this manifested in the...