Spencer How would Herbert Spencer have viewed post-modern society?

Applying the theories of the sociologist Herbert Spencer to modern society may seem, on its surface, a heroically anachronistic effort. After all, Spencer is known for his totalizing attempts to subsume human development into a single overreaching theory of sociological and biological development. Over the course of his writings, Spencer attempted to apply Darwinian biological principles to the evolution of human society. In doing so, he created a sense of inevitability in terms of the march of human society. The currently popular philosophy and style of post-modernism, in contrast, tends to view the...

Rather, post-modernism frames ideas as part of a fragmented constellation of social products.
For instance, the biological ideas so favored by Spencer, according to post-modern ideas are simply another cultural product or cultural framework. Biology is not an explanation for human society. It is only one schema of thought that has been created in the morass of contemporary cultural ideas. Evolution in sociological terms as viewed by Spencer, and as noted in Contemporary Sociological Theory and Its Classical Roots: The Basics, by George Ritzer, a chronicler of…