• The Enlightenment in 18th and 19th century Europe was a movement focused on the primary source of authority and legitimacy. The work of thinkers Aguste Comte‚ Karl Marx‚ George Simmel‚ Hebert Spencer‚ Emile Durkheim‚ and Max Weber were all major influencers of the Enlightenment in the 18th and 19th century on the development of sociological theory. Aguste Comte is the French sociologist who founded sociology in 1836. The Enlightenment was a time period of development and change in philosophical
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Question #2 pg. 25 The working conditions for women in the late 19th century were exhausting‚ unjust and unacceptable. The working conditions varied depending on the position that each woman held. The managers of these factories expected near perfection from the women in the workplace and they were heavily fined or severely punished for anything they did that the managers did not see fit such as eating‚ talking‚ or singing. The women that worked in the factories during this time period worked
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A Maturing Industrial Nation During the 19th century the United States faced its greatest economic revolution. Mainly‚ this industrial enhancement primarily a result of the completion of the transcontinental railroad‚ a transportation system that runs cross-country. Aside from impacting the economy‚ the railroad also affected the politics of the late 1800s and early 1900s. Since the political jobs were reserved for the upper class‚ investors in the railroad tended to have inflated bank accounts;
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The westward expansion was in the 19th century‚ which started in 1803 with the Louisiana Purchase. During this period it brought way for the slave debate‚ if the new states would become slave states and how the north and south would be balanced for economic growth and vast new territory. The expansion west rose the question of how and if slavery would still continue which is known as the slave debate. This conflict was about the northern states depended on free labor rather than slave labor compared
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As urban industrial workers expanded in the 19th century‚ industry and the industrial work force boomed as well. Workers ‚ however‚ were met with difficult situations that ultimately led to violent outbursts. Low wages could not buy food and clothes at the same time and conditions in the work place brought about countless deaths and injuries. Growing number of immigrants caused the reduction of wages and insecurity of the workers caused unemployment. There were hostilities between workers‚ employers
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Introduction: Despite the growth of industry‚ urban centers and immigration‚ America in the late 19th century was still predominantly rural. Seven out of ten people in the United States lived in small towns with populations under 2500 or on farms in 1870. In Indiana‚ the 1880 census reported a population of almost 2 million residents‚ about 55 per square mile‚ 1‚010‚000 men and 968‚000 woman. About three out of four people lived in rural areas. Although much of the study done on woman’s roles during
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Women have been at an unfair disadvantage in society dating all the way back to the early 19th century. In the 19th century‚ women did not have suffrage and could not own property if they were married. Nevertheless‚ single women could own property‚ but were seen as mistresses or not pure. Divorce also could not be achieved by women without their husbands. Married women that wanted a divorce had to be divorced by their husbands not the other way around. When women married‚ they were stripped of independent
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role could be shown to be socially constructed within a specific historical context‚ rather than natural and universal‚ then feminists would argue that it was open to change. Activists within the first organised women’s movement of the late 19th and early 20th centuries found that women were largely absent from standard history texts and this inspired them to write their own histories. Detailed studies of women’s work‚ trade unionism and political activities were produced by authors such as Barbara
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The 19th century was a time of rapid change and modernization of the world through quite possibly the most impactful economic movement in human history‚ the form of the Industrial Revolution. Coming out of the 18th century‚ which saw Enlightenment ideas flourish into actual Constitutions of rapidly rising nations‚ the 19th century saw the infant mortality rate drop rapidly and population growth boom due to findings such as the first vaccine‚ not using leeches to treat disease‚ as well as a variety
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Britain in the 19th and 20th centuries saw a decline in child labour and the introduction of compulsory schooling for children in Britain. I intend to discuss the relationship between these two processes and the impact they had on both adults and children’s lives. I will also discuss the changes in views of childhood that accompanied and followed these developments. Pre-industrial Britain saw many children engaged in various types of manual employment; in agriculture‚ the mills‚ factories‚ pits
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