Herbert_Spencer

Herbert Spencer Herbert Spencer had two major evolutionary theories which included the size of societies and the evolution from militant to industrial societies. His theory on the size of a society relates directly to the needs of society as it expanded and subsequently needed more organizations to support it. It was his belief that organizations themselves would grow and require expansions in order to adapt to the larger environments. As for the evolution of societies he characterized militant societies or early societies as those that were more concerned with defense and offensive warfare. He even stated how warfare would initially yield a good by bringing societies together, but noted how war could have a negative effect on a society which was already developed. Industrial societies unlike militant societies are merit based in that a person is judged on his accomplishments and skills he has to offer to the society. Unlike earlier forms of society like the monarchy people aren’t born into status and power, instead they have to earn it. These industrial societies also shifted the government’s emphasis from telling people how to live and what they should do to only telling people what societies, society, people, spencer, unlike, themselves, should, militant, industrial, government’s, even, warfare, theory, telling, support, size, programs, personal, organizations, off, much, idea, government, evolution, yield, years, world, while, weighing, war, wanted, unfit, type, two, traditionally