nnately superior to any other. He confirmed the differences in peoples were the result of historical, social and geographic conditions and all people had equally developed cultures.Boaz was objective. He lived within different societies around the world while collecting data on everything he saw, from language, customs and history. He concluded that a society can survive through corporation just as well as a society can through competition. How a society survives depends on it’s psychological conditions, what satisfies their human needs. No matter how a society struggles to survive, no society is superior, or more evolved then the next.Spencer was considered ethnocentric and racist in his theory on social evolution because he was no objective. He may have not been open minded because he was not brought up in a multicultural society. Spencer grew up and lived among the British all his life. Boaz, on the other hand, was jewish and saw the differences in views of different cultures because he had grew up among a semi multicultural society.Herbert Spencer’s theory was very convincing, even enough for Darwin to take some of his ideas and develop it into a biological evolution theory. Th problem was that Spencer was not objective enough, he was not a “true” sociologist. As for Boaz, he was objective enough, since he was a culture relativist....
