How Did The Industrial Revolution Affect Society
The Industrial Revolution has had more negative effects on the world community than positive effects. Through the course of learning about the history of different countries and their success and loss in industrialization has taught me different things, good and bad, about the industrial revolution as a whole. Although I have come to an understanding with every opinion fixated towards positivity in industrial times, I think that a negative effect was mainly brought during the industrial revolution. Main points that came into effect from the industrial revolution are as follows; environmental and rise in mass culture, technology advancement and changed in government, racism in urban age as well as economic changes. Adding all of these together
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you may get very different opinions of what was good and what was bad about each of these subjects, but all in all each had their faults.
Main conflicts that arose from the industrial revolution is, environment factors and rise in mass cultures. Environmental factors such as air pollution which came into a big effect in Brtiain around the 17th century till the late 20th century. Air pollution was the most negative effect when it came to environmental issues involving the industrial revolution because of the many factories being built in small areas that were not spread out. The Great London Smog of 1952 was the aftermath of the British and their industrial revolution which caused many diseases that became untreatable for quite some time. Another effect that took a turn in during the industrial revolution was the rise of mass culture; the culture that is widely circulated by the use of the mass media. The rise in mass culture came into effect when Western culture altered because of consumer emphasis and growths in science and arts. The main contrast was between music and romanticism in art, painters broke free from the discipline strict rules of the Enlightenment, and painters thought they were being cheated by the photo camera that could capture a picture even better. Novels depicted grim reality and realism in drama brought up hypocrisy. The awareness of higher wages and increased relaxation time creating important adjustments in popular culture grew, as well as working-class men and women accepting middle-class values. The idea of desire as a legitimate part of life grew as well. The capacity of factories meant that consumption had to be encouraged. Literature gave a wide range of material such as poems, novels, and music. These specific arts are not all bad, but the media that was brought to their attention exceeded to a higher level of resentment by the public.
Additionaly the advancement in technology brought major faults into the industrial revolution. Although technology is accommodative and has evolved to become what our world depends on, it still has negative sides due to the factory growth which lead to environmental issues. Technology specifically had more of a long term effect than short term because of technology being something that today’s world depends on. Everything that has happened in the past lead up to the future which is now the present, technology has consumed our lives while managing to help it in some ways. Technology in Industrial times brought the steam engine which was an amazing invention, but it brought many pollution to the areas including air and water. Even though technology has somewhat helped in the industrial times its long term cause became massive in negativity. Changes in government were made quickly to adjust to strengthen ones country. For example Germany strengthened during 1871 because of a unification, the German empire emerged as the industrial giant of the Eurpean continent. By the late 1800’s iron chancellor of the new German empire, Bismarck pursued several foreign-policy goals. Although change is good, Bismarck along with other leaders of the Industrial age brought some faults to their plans such as abolishing Churches and the freedom to practice religion and going against what your people want. Germany was not the only ones to create new forms of government, but Italy and their obstacles to Italian Unity; while others’ empire declines.
Additionally, racism brought different complications.
Difficulties such as Darwinism backing up social ideas, some thinkers used his theories to support their own beliefs about society. Although Darwin himself never promoted any social ideas, others took into account of creating their own ideas. Applying the idea of survival of the fittest to war and economic competition and the main one racism, which was encouraged by Social Darwinism. By the late 1800’s many Europeans and Americans claimed that the success of Western civilization was due to the supremacy of the white race. Racism did end up taking on until the Civil War and created huge disputes in history. Additionally economy created a huge change in industrialization, the cause of economy to change is because of all the new inventions of technology and factories and workers with pay. David Ricardo came up with “The Iron Law of Wages” which meant workers should be paid only enough to survive. If people made more money, they will have more children and therefore become poor and eventually die off from starvation. This theory became a correct statement of the economy around industrial times. Workers had to be fulfilled with their pays, because they are at a “natural level”. Along with another of Ricardo’s ideas this lead to many conclusions that people are poor because of personal flaw in their
character.
In conclusion, the Industrial Revolution brought many faults in society as a whole. Negative aspects of this time where altered to become things that we have now learned from. The mistakes of different outcomes have now altered us to think better about the environment, people, leadership, and economy. The industrial revolution was never a time to think of as regret but a learning experience and I believe that the world has learned from the industrial times and will continue learning through different mistakes being made. The industrial revolution had many flaws, but we cannot change them now, instead live with them.
you may get very different opinions of what was good and what was bad about each of these subjects, but all in all each had their faults.
Main conflicts that arose from the industrial revolution is, environment factors and rise in mass cultures. Environmental factors such as air pollution which came into a big effect in Brtiain around the 17th century till the late 20th century. Air pollution was the most negative effect when it came to environmental issues involving the industrial revolution because of the many factories being built in small areas that were not spread out. The Great London Smog of 1952 was the aftermath of the British and their industrial revolution which caused many diseases that became untreatable for quite some time. Another effect that took a turn in during the industrial revolution was the rise of mass culture; the culture that is widely circulated by the use of the mass media. The rise in mass culture came into effect when Western culture altered because of consumer emphasis and growths in science and arts. The main contrast was between music and romanticism in art, painters broke free from the discipline strict rules of the Enlightenment, and painters thought they were being cheated by the photo camera that could capture a picture even better. Novels depicted grim reality and realism in drama brought up hypocrisy. The awareness of higher wages and increased relaxation time creating important adjustments in popular culture grew, as well as working-class men and women accepting middle-class values. The idea of desire as a legitimate part of life grew as well. The capacity of factories meant that consumption had to be encouraged. Literature gave a wide range of material such as poems, novels, and music. These specific arts are not all bad, but the media that was brought to their attention exceeded to a higher level of resentment by the public.
Additionaly the advancement in technology brought major faults into the industrial revolution. Although technology is accommodative and has evolved to become what our world depends on, it still has negative sides due to the factory growth which lead to environmental issues. Technology specifically had more of a long term effect than short term because of technology being something that today’s world depends on. Everything that has happened in the past lead up to the future which is now the present, technology has consumed our lives while managing to help it in some ways. Technology in Industrial times brought the steam engine which was an amazing invention, but it brought many pollution to the areas including air and water. Even though technology has somewhat helped in the industrial times its long term cause became massive in negativity. Changes in government were made quickly to adjust to strengthen ones country. For example Germany strengthened during 1871 because of a unification, the German empire emerged as the industrial giant of the Eurpean continent. By the late 1800’s iron chancellor of the new German empire, Bismarck pursued several foreign-policy goals. Although change is good, Bismarck along with other leaders of the Industrial age brought some faults to their plans such as abolishing Churches and the freedom to practice religion and going against what your people want. Germany was not the only ones to create new forms of government, but Italy and their obstacles to Italian Unity; while others’ empire declines.
Additionally, racism brought different complications.
Difficulties such as Darwinism backing up social ideas, some thinkers used his theories to support their own beliefs about society. Although Darwin himself never promoted any social ideas, others took into account of creating their own ideas. Applying the idea of survival of the fittest to war and economic competition and the main one racism, which was encouraged by Social Darwinism. By the late 1800’s many Europeans and Americans claimed that the success of Western civilization was due to the supremacy of the white race. Racism did end up taking on until the Civil War and created huge disputes in history. Additionally economy created a huge change in industrialization, the cause of economy to change is because of all the new inventions of technology and factories and workers with pay. David Ricardo came up with “The Iron Law of Wages” which meant workers should be paid only enough to survive. If people made more money, they will have more children and therefore become poor and eventually die off from starvation. This theory became a correct statement of the economy around industrial times. Workers had to be fulfilled with their pays, because they are at a “natural level”. Along with another of Ricardo’s ideas this lead to many conclusions that people are poor because of personal flaw in their
character.
In conclusion, the Industrial Revolution brought many faults in society as a whole. Negative aspects of this time where altered to become things that we have now learned from. The mistakes of different outcomes have now altered us to think better about the environment, people, leadership, and economy. The industrial revolution was never a time to think of as regret but a learning experience and I believe that the world has learned from the industrial times and will continue learning through different mistakes being made. The industrial revolution had many flaws, but we cannot change them now, instead live with them.