5+-+Spencer,+Huxley,+&+Weber

Nealy Kehres and Alex Genna

Max Weber:
 * German Sociologist [[image:http://www.dklevine.com/images/max_weber.jpg width="102" height="178"]]
 * regarded the emergence of rationalism throughout society as the major development of human history
 * bureaucratization is the basic feature of modern social life
 * opposed Marx view of capitalism
 * people gain a sense of personal worth from their positions in the bureaus
 * Best essay: The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism
 * Believed Puritans worked for worldly success for their own sake as opposed to assure they were good in God's eyes

Herbert Spencer:
 * British Philosopher
 * [[image:http://www.wikiberal.org/w/images/2/28/Herbert_spencer.jpg width="80" height="120"]]
 * believed human society progresses through competition; If weak people receive too much protection, the rest of humankind is the loser.
 * his beliefs were applied in the idea not to aid the poor and the working class
 * advocated aggressive competition among nations
 * Believed women could never achieve equality with men

<span style="color: #f10e5e; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Thomas Huxley:
 * <span style="color: #f10e5e; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">British Scientist [[image:http://www.utm.edu/research/iep-wp/wp-content/media/huxley.jpg width="97" height="120"]]
 * <span style="color: #f10e5e; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">"Great defender of Darwin"
 * <span style="color: #f10e5e; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Complete opposite views of Spencer
 * <span style="color: #f10e5e; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">1893 declared that physical process of evolution was at odd with human ethical development
 * <span style="color: #ff00ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">struggle in nature only showed how humans should NOT behave
 * <span style="color: #f10e5e; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Wrote "Evolution and Ethics," which explains that human ethical progress occurs through combating cosmic process.

<span style="color: #f10e5e; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> Huxley's Views on Women-


 * <span style="color: #f10e5e; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">excluded women during discussions in the Ethological Society
 * <span style="color: #f10e5e; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Women were unfit to discuss customs of primitive people
 * <span style="color: #f10e5e; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">women were amateurs that would lower level of discussion
 * <span style="color: #f10e5e; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Also excluded women in geographical society
 * <span style="color: #f10e5e; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Public lectures exclaimed to have found scientific evidence in inferiority of women and support expansion of the education for women.