<Tr> <Th> Main interests </Th> <Td> Evolution, positivism, laissez - faire, utilitarianism </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Notable ideas </Th> <Td> Social Darwinism Survival of the fittest </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td_colspan="2"> Influences (show) <Ul> <Li> Democritus, Aristotle, Charles Darwin, Auguste Comte, John Stuart Mill, George Henry Lewes, Jean - Baptiste Lamarck, Thomas Henry Huxley </Li> </Ul> </Td> </Tr> <Ul> <Li> Democritus, Aristotle, Charles Darwin, Auguste Comte, John Stuart Mill, George Henry Lewes, Jean - Baptiste Lamarck, Thomas Henry Huxley </Li> </Ul>

John is a sociologist who argued that social conditions