Spencer was committed to empirical research and employed a comparative-historical methodology in much of his work. The Evolution of Society. As stated above, ...
Spencer developed an all-embracing conception of evolution as the progressive development of the physical world, biological organisms, the human mind, and human ...
Method. Spencer's method is, broadly speaking, scientific and empirical, and it was influenced significantly by the positivism of Auguste Comte. Because of ...
由 L Pet’ko 著作 · 2014 — Spencer's method is, broadly speaking, scientific and empirical, and it was influenced significantly by the positivism of Auguste Comte. ... Sociological Theory: ...
It aims to shed light on the progressive and retrogressive modes of evolutionary development and the biologistic explanations he employed in his social theory ...
由 JH Turner 著作 · 1981 · 被引用 14 次 — In focusing only on Spencer's theoretical models and principles, we are ignoring many of his most important contributions in methodology (Spencer, 1873) and in ...
由 GH Smith 著作 · 被引用 29 次 — Again, Spencer argues that the uniformity of law, the constant relation between cause and consequent, is presupposed by scientific investigation and cannot ...
Basing his ideas on Darwinism, he created a sociological theory that argued that certain human races are more powerful than others and that this can be used ...
由 YN Liu 著作 · 2017 · 被引用 18 次 — In teaching methods, Spencer advocated the automatic learning based on students and emphasized the role of interest in the process of teaching,. In the aspect ...
2014年11月24日 — The empirical utilitarian, according to Spencer, frames generalizations by observing that certain kinds of actions are regularly followed by ...
