Pseudo-Scientific And Aborigines Flashcards
What was the use of Pseudo Scientific Theories in the law and policies of governments called?
Institutional racism.
What was the purpose of Pseudo-Science?
Pseudo-Science was to prove that some persons were better than others, physically and mentally, because of their race. They believed some races were more evolved than others.
What does Pseudo-Science mean?
Pseudo Science isn’t based on science or fact, but on prejudice and faulty theories.
What are some Pseudo Scientific Theories?
Scientific Racism and Social Darwinism.
Scientist wanted to categorize and measure everything, this included people. What would a form of this be called?
Phrenology.
Around what century did these theories emerge?
The 19th Century.
What was the motive behind Scientific Racism?
Scientists wanted to analyze and process humans in the same way as natural science.
They began classifying people by their what? Give an example of this.
They began classifying people by their physical appearance. Eg: SWART GEVAAR - Black people are rapists, murderers and thieves. PEOPLE OF ASIAN DECENT - Inherently good at everything.
Scientists came to the conclusion that each race had-
- typical characteristics.
Racists theories became applied as ___________
SCIENCE
SOCIAL DARWINISM took Scientific Racism further. Who undertook Charles Darwin’s Theory of Evolution and applied it to his own pseudo science theories?
Herbert Spencer.
Who said the well known phrase, “Survival of the Fittest.” Charles Darwin or Herbert Spencer?
Herbert Spencer coined the phrase.
What was the idea behind Social Darwinism?
That different races where at different stages of evolution. There was a now a hierarchy.
With this racial hierarchy, who was placed at the top?
Caucasian people.
Social Darwinism was used to justify what?
To justify government policies.
