Re: Modern Anthropology and its Political Agendas

[Bob LeChevalier]

christopherwilberforce@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
>Degler
>(1991, 188ff) notes that the shift away from Darwinism as the
>fundamental paradigm of the social sciences resulted from an
>ideological shift rather than from the emergence of any new empirical
>data.

Social darwinism was never anything other than pseudoscience,
piggybacking on the solidity of biological Darwinism (i.e. the theory
of evolution).

In general, if it has an "-ism" attached, it is an ideology and
therefore inherently wrong.

lojbab