The late-nineteenth-century sociologist Lester Frank Ward
A. suggested that industrialism was creating "organization men."
B. believed that human intelligence, not natural selection, shaped society.
C. sought to apply Darwinian laws to human society.
D. believed that government intervention in society would be harmful.
E. argued that people could do little to alter the economic stratification of society.
Answer: B
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