7 sentences with “advocated”

Social Darwinism soon led to the field of eugenics, which advocated programmes to sterilise the "unfit".

The Cynics advocated a combination of asceticism and naturalism, satisfying physical needs without regard for social conventions.

Moreover, for the first time, a movement emerged that advocated the idea that homosexuality was a legitimate sexual identity, not a mental illness or a "perverse" threat to the social order.

Fourier was much more radical than most other socialists. On the one hand, he advocated complete gender equality and even sexual liberation - he was very hostile to monogamy, which he believed to be unnatural.

Before the assassination of Tsar Alexander II, young members of the intelligentsia formed a social movement known as the Narodniks. The Narodniks advocated "returning to the people", living among the former serfs and trying to educate them, which they did during the spring of 1874.

Instead of a state, Proudhon advocated local cooperatives of workers in a kind of "economic federalism" in which cooperatives would exchange goods and services with each other, and each cooperative would reward labour with the fruits of that labour. In short, the workers themselves would keep all the profits.

Over the centuries, physicians advocated various techniques that aimed to dispel miasmas by introducing other smells, including leaving piles of onions in the streets of plague-stricken neighbourhoods and, from the 17th century onwards, the use of masks that resembled birds' heads, with the 'beaks' stuffed with flower petals.