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Eugenics meaning

A social philosophy or practice which advocates the improvement of human hereditary qualities through selective breeding, either by encouraging people with superior genetic qualities to reproduce (positive eugenics), or discouraging people with inferior genetic qualities from reproducing (negative eugenics), or by technological means.

Synonyms of Eugenics

life science bioscience dysgenics

Using Eugenics

  • The main meaning on this page is: A social philosophy or practice which advocates the improvement of human hereditary qualities through selective breeding, either by encouraging people with superior genetic qualities to reproduce (positive eugenics), or discouraging people with inferior genetic qualities from reproducing (negative eugenics), or by technological means.
  • Useful related words include: life science, bioscience, dysgenics.
  • In the example corpus, eugenics often appears in combinations such as: of eugenics, eugenics movement, eugenics in.

Context around Eugenics

  • Average sentence length in these examples: 27.6 words
  • Position in the sentence: 4 start, 7 middle, 9 end
  • Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations

Corpus analysis for Eugenics

  • In this selection, "eugenics" usually appears near the end of the sentence. The average example has 27.6 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
  • Around the word, negative, concerning, core, movement, karl and fell stand out and add context to how "eugenics" is used.
  • Recognizable usage signals include as when eugenics quarterly became and california s eugenics movement of. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
  • By corpus frequency, "eugenics" sits close to words such as abnormally, acrobatic and adm, which helps place it inside the broader word index.

Example types with eugenics

The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:

Called the Human Diversity Foundation (HDF), this group advocates scientific racism and eugenics. (13 words)

Alan Guttmacher, president of Planned Parenthood and founder of his eponymous institute, served as of the American Eugenics Society. (19 words)

Pike explains that civil strife led to the Eugenics Wars, America's second Civil War, and finally, World War III. (20 words)

There are about 3X as many white women as black in the US but white women get 8X as much for donated eggs and Diane M. Tober in wealthy people looking for specific traits has gotten to the point of being eugenics. (42 words)

Two US scholars from the institute of Technology fell into the first camp, saying that laws that rely on government control to serve a public health goal, which aligns with the concept of eugenics, even by narrow definitions. (38 words)

Already, a major building on its Los Angeles campus has been relieved of its namesake, Rufus B. von KleinSmid, the school’s fifth president and a leading voice in California’s eugenics movement of the early 20th century. (38 words)

Example sentences (20)

It’s not like this was a case where eugenics was briefed or like the Indiana Legislature was talking a lot about eugenics.

Eugenics Some of Wells's early science fiction works reflect his thoughts about the degeneration of humanity. citation Wells doubted whether human knowledge had advanced sufficiently for eugenics to be successful.

Her 1920 book endorsed negative eugenics Eugenics After World War I, Sanger increasingly appealed to the societal need to limit births by those least able to afford children.

In his lecture "Darwinism, Medical Progress and Eugenics", Karl Pearson said that everything concerning eugenics fell into the field of medicine.

Many organizations and journals that had their origins in the eugenics movement began to distance themselves from the philosophy, as when Eugenics Quarterly became Social Biology in 1969.

While he agreed with some of the ideas of eugenics, he strongly opposed the core eugenics movement principle that some people should have fewer children.

Alan Guttmacher, president of Planned Parenthood and founder of his eponymous institute, served as of the American Eugenics Society.

Pike explains that civil strife led to the Eugenics Wars, America's second Civil War, and finally, World War III.

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Policies that dictate which lives are acceptableorganized abandonment fall neatly in line with the long tradition of eugenics in America.

Teaching about the Holocaust, and the role of eugenics in it, in the science curricula of Maine’s public schools is a misguided idea.

The Bailey Howe Library at the University of Vermont changed its name after student protests over its namesake’s ties to the eugenics movement of the 1920s.

The lawsuit contends that California’s approach, known as the End of Life Option Act, harks back to the discredited practice of eugenics, which once sought to keep people with disabilities and other minority groups from reproducing.

This understanding of race was also connected to eugenics and scientific racism, which gained popularity during the early 20th century and attempted to rank groups based on their “potential to assimilate into the White Protestant mainstream.

Called the Human Diversity Foundation (HDF), this group advocates scientific racism and eugenics.

For instance, while Czechoslovakia established eugenics research institutions much earlier, these ideas were never translated into public policies as they were in Estonia in the late 1930s.

There are about 3X as many white women as black in the US but white women get 8X as much for donated eggs and Diane M. Tober in wealthy people looking for specific traits has gotten to the point of being eugenics.

Two US scholars from the institute of Technology fell into the first camp, saying that laws that rely on government control to serve a public health goal, which aligns with the concept of eugenics, even by narrow definitions.

Already, a major building on its Los Angeles campus has been relieved of its namesake, Rufus B. von KleinSmid, the school’s fifth president and a leading voice in California’s eugenics movement of the early 20th century.

Alright, so the ability to "customize" a person's attitude or trait would spark an entire debate on the ethics of eugenics and genetic manipulation.

Authorities say they’re trying to cut down on poverty and extremism, but outside experts call it an extraordinary experiment in state-led eugenics aimed at forcibly assimilating Muslim minorities.

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Common combinations with eugenics

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Frequently asked questions

How do you use "eugenics" in a sentence?
An example: "It’s not like this was a case where eugenics was briefed or like the Indiana Legislature was talking a lot about eugenics." This page contains 10+ example sentences with the word "eugenics" from authentic English texts.
What does "eugenics" mean?
Eugenics means: A social philosophy or practice which advocates the improvement of human hereditary qualities through selective breeding, either by encouraging people with superior genetic qualities to reproduce (positive eugenics), or discouraging people with inferior genetic qualities from reproducing (negative eugenics), or by technological means.
What are synonyms of "eugenics"?
Common synonyms of "eugenics" include: life science, bioscience, dysgenics.
How many example sentences with "eugenics" are there?
Voorbeeldzinnen.info contains at least 10+ example sentences with "eugenics", drawn from a database of millions of English sentences.