These fell out of fashion in the second half of the twentieth century, for two reasons. First, they seemed to have dangerous consequences, like labelling hated minorities as parasites or bacilli. They suffered by association with social Darwinism, which had drawn direct connections between biology and society.
Let biological metaphors back into social…
These fell out of fashion in the second half of the twentieth century, for two reasons. First, they seemed to have dangerous consequences, like labelling hated minorities as parasites or bacilli. They suffered by association with social Darwinism, which had drawn direct connections between biology and society.