American Studies 356/History 356K Main Currents in American Culture Since 1865 Fall‚ 2010 Dr. Mark Smith TTh 2-3:30 Burdine 428 Burdine 134 Tues 10-11‚ Th 12:30-2 and by appt. 232-2150/471-7277/e-mail: mcsmith@mail.utexas.edu Teaching Assistant: Jeanette Vaught Office: Burdine 408 Hours: TTh 3:30-5 and by appt. At the end of the Civil War‚ American society became flooded with new technologies‚ ethnic groups‚ ideas‚ and customs. A society‚ which had bewildered earlier
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Looking back one hundred years ago‚ it would seem that our society has became immoral and unjust. In the early 1900s‚ morals were defined by mostly by religion or society. Today‚ many people see morals as being more of a personal behavior and not necessarily determined by religion or society. Some of the differences between morals of the early 1900s and the early 2000s is women rights‚ marriage/divorce laws and the presence of religion. The biggest change in morality came with the women’s
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EMPLOYMENT IN INDUSTRIAL AND POST INDUSTRIAL 1 SOCIETIES IN RELATION TO POWER 1 1.0 INTRODUCTION 1 2.0 GENDER DEFINED 1 3.0 ASPECTS OF GENDER 2 4.0 GENDER AND POWER RELATIONS 2 4.1 Patriarchy System 2 4.2 Biological aspect 3 5.0 INEQUALITIES IN EMPLOYMENT 3 5.1 Altitude towards women in the workforce 3 5.2 The industrial and post industrial societies 4 6.0 CONCLUSION 5 LIST OF SOURCES 7 Assignment Questions A. Discuss the role of gender and employment in industrial and post-industrial
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Leaders and Leadership What is leadership? Leadership is a special form of power‚ one that involves the ability‚ based on the personal qualities of the leader‚ to elicit the followers’ voluntary compliance in a broad range of matters. Leadership is distinguished from the concept of power in that it entails influence‚ that is‚ change of preferences‚ while power implies only that subjects’ preferences are held in abeyance (Etzioni‚ 1965). There are two approaches that we are going to discuss in this
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Society in the early 1900’s for woman was that their role in society was to stand by their man and do housework. When countries got involved in WW1‚ men were shipped off to the frontlines and women often got involved in factories and other jobs left open by the men that left. When the war ended‚ women were able to return to working in the home‚ and that opened up jobs for men. Because of this woman wore clothes for work and it was seen as inappropriate to show anything above the ankle. These days
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1. The Industrial Revolution and its consequences have been a disaster for the human race. They have greatly increased the life-expectancy of those of us who live in "advanced" countries‚ but they have destabilized society‚ have made life unfulfilling‚ have subjected human beings to indignities‚ have led to widespread psychological suffering (in the Third World to physical suffering as well) and have inflicted severe damage on the natural world. The continued development of technology will worsen
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How Far Had Public Health Improved 1800 – 1900? Imagine if you were working in a factory at least for 16hours in a dirty atmosphere‚ then when you eventually get to go home‚ you have to go through the smell of overflowing cesspits‚ and finally you enter the dingy little room with a bed in the corner filled with sleeping family‚ how would you feel? Well‚ in the 1800s- 1900s poor people lived exactly like that‚ because they were lacking the effectiveness of public health‚ which was suppose
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so-called “Hindu rate of growth” of three and a half percent. During the remaining period‚ it grew at rates between 5 and 6 percent. Indian economic policy during this period was mainly influenced by the colonial experience (which was seen by Indian leaders as exploitative in nature). This economic policy tended towards: – protectionism‚ with a strong emphasis on import substitution‚ – industrialization under state monitoring‚ – state intervention at the micro level in all businesses especially
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How to dress your best in the early 1900’s By TiaD. Harris Introduction to the 1900’s In the year 1900‚ America was just entering a brand new century! During this moment in time‚ people called it “an age of confidence!” Mostly because most Americans believed that new ways of traveling‚ communicating‚ and manufacturing were good for the county and they were! They were for sure this would make everyone’s lives better! But that wasn’t all true. Most poor people had a harder time getting
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Industrial tycoons of the nineteenth century used whatever they could to get to the top of the economy‚ by either contributing positively or in some cases even if it meant destroying all the other industries that got in their way. In the nineteenth century‚ industrial tycoons were known as either a robber baron (Jay Gould) or a Captain of Industry (Henry Ford). Depending on how someone contributed to the growth of businesses‚ labeled them as one or the other. Some of the contributing factors that
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