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The 17 pages that link to Herbert Spencer, each with the reason it gives.

• Social DarwinismRelated: His writings supplied the phrase and framework commonly associated with Social Darwinism.

• Auguste ComteRelated: Spencer’s evolutionary sociology developed alongside Comte’s influential account of social development.

• Structural functionalismRelated: His organismic analogy supplied an influential early model for thinking about social structures and functions.

• Progressive educationRelated: His emphasis on science and development shaped the intellectual climate in which reformers argued about schooling.

• Thomas Henry HuxleyRelated: Huxley engaged with Spencer’s evolutionary philosophy while distinguishing scientific evidence from speculation.

• Social evolutionismRelated: He framed social change as increasing complexity and differentiation.

• Social evolutionRelated: He popularized the analogy between social differentiation and biological evolution.

• Victorian scienceRelated: His social evolutionism shows how scientific concepts moved into Victorian political thought.

• Unilineal evolutionRelated: His social evolutionism supplied a broader framework for ranking societies by complexity.

• William Graham SumnerRelated: Spencer’s evolutionary sociology helped shape the intellectual setting in which Sumner worked.

• Jack LondonRelated: Spencer’s social theories influenced the individualism London explored and criticized in fiction.

• Lester Frank WardRelated: Ward challenged Spencer’s influence while adapting evolutionary thinking to sociology.

• Sociocultural evolutionRelated: His work made social evolution a prominent nineteenth-century framework.

• Yan FuRelated: Yan Fu translated several of Spencer’s works and helped popularize his social theories in China.