Those who believed that poverty was due to laziness or sinful behavior were most likely to believe in

Social Darwinists applied the idea of “survival of the fittest” to society and often argued that people’s poverty resulted from personal failings, such as laziness, rather than from social or economic conditions. Therefore, the belief described is associated with the social Darwinism movement. The social gospel movement, by contrast, urged people to address poverty and other social problems.

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