This paper concerns with one of her social explorers: the middle class heroine Margaret Hale who was brought up in the South but is forced to leave her home and move to an industrial town in the North. 2. Social Conditions of the Lower Classes in Nineteenth Century England The Industrial Revolution made Britain the first industrialized country in the world. However, despite the undeniably positive outcomes the industrial revolution en-tailed, a plethora of negative side effects accompanied this unprecedented progress. ... Elizabeth Gaskell, the author of North and South, was a first-hand w...

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Even as socialism struggled to define its ideology and win support from workers, the Industrial Revolution continued to alter the life of modern people. ... With the advent of the Industrial Revolution the focus of human activity shifted dramatically, away from the agricultural village and seasonal way of life. The Industrial Revolution changed virtually everything. ... Urbanization, changes in the status of women and children, and new ideologies of liberty and social equality were as much consequences of the Industrial Revolution as were factories, cheaper consumer goods, and weapons capab...

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As observed by Karl Marx, capitalism transformed a small proportion of a society's population into capitalists, or those who own the factories and industrial businesses, while the larger proportion of the population became wage labourers, a grouping which Marx called the proletariats. ... Using the idea of materialism, Marx traced class conflict through the different stages of history in order to explain the rise of modern industrial capitalism. ... The main epochs which Marx discusses are listed in chronological order as primitive communism, ancient systems, feudalism, and lastly, mod...

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For the Marxist-Leninists, the struggle for general-democratic reforms is at the same time a struggle to prepare the socialist revolution. ... Contrary to these illusions, Marxism-Leninism states that the transition to socialism is effected by a social revolution as Lenin proved the objective need for such revolutionary and reformist directives and programmes (Zagladin V.V. 1973:137-138). ... In his works, Durkheim presented an analysis of social change that argued that the advent of the industrial era meant that the emergence of a new type of solidarity, mechanical and organic and related th...

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Marxist suggests that the solution to the problem involves carrying out a revolution to break the domination of the capitalist. ... During the industrial revolution, the high class was able to dominate the lower class individuals through a number of ways. The industrial revolution began in Britain and went further into Germany passing through France and Belgium. The revolution changed the way in which the goods got produced and the way of living. The revolution resulted in changes in the social structure. ...

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Social Darwinism in the United States in the late nineteenth century seems to have been the logical path for social theorists after the industrial revolution. The country had just experienced an industrial revolution and business was booming. Of course, along with the industrial revolution came larger separation of the social classes and countless poor. ...

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The Developments Caused by Liberalism in the Rise of Socialism Early theories of the Enlightment philosophy formed an underlying theme through the history of liberalism and the development of socialism. However often contradicted through our own human err of bias perception, the works of great thin...

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Through showing the exploitation and class division that occurs in a capitalist market, Marx notes that this type of inequality can only lead to a revolution, which in this case would bring about communism (Marx & Engels, 2002). ...

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In pre-industrial or traditional societies, inequalities and thus social stratification were widely held to be natural. ... It was Karl Marx was first scrutinised the 'bourgeois freedoms' created by the English and French revolutions. ... Thus, the landless labourers created as a consequence of the development of industrial capitalism constituted a new class of individuals, a class which would eventually transform capitalist society, the proletariat. ... One of the main sources of empirical evidence for arguments concerning the declining significance of class in late twentieth cent...

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" Consequently, if a revolution were to occur, it would be initiated from above and not from below. ... We can understand from this why there were no revolutions in Africa against the regime, but only against those who administered it poorly, i.e., unworthy princes. In addition, there were, of course, also palace revolutions. ... Their consciences could in no way be bearers of the seeds of revolution: being the principal beneficiaries of the monarchical regime, they defend it up to this day, or regret its passing. ... But for reasons connected to the preindustrial nature of Africa, such a...

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This was of course before the industrial revolution when goods began to be mass-produced, creating the opportunity to steal more, and also to sell more: "The growth of mass-produced and mass-owned consumer goods, of which there is little chance of being traced or recognized by the owner, paved the way for "receivers" who on a large scale buy stolen property to resell it, often at a distance or after a time has elapsed, for a handsome profit."[pg. 10] After the industrial revolution not only could legitimate businesses grow, but so could the illegitimate ones. ...

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From the late 1980s, research on gender, crime and social issues, has hugely focused on the study of masculinity, and how there has become a correlation between masculinity and violence. Feminists have researched extensively on all types associated with gender, including gay and lesbian, thus acting...

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Gender Inequality and Injustice in the Educational System TABLE OF CONTENTS Page Acknowledgments 2 Introduction 5 Thesis and its Purpose 6 Statement of the Major Hypotheses: 7 Part A: The Formal Curriculum 7 Organization of The Formal Curriculum 7 Content of The Formal Curriculum 8 Part B: The Informal Curriculum 9 Process of The Informal Curriculum 9 Structure of The Informal Curriculum 9 Chapter 1: Theoretical Paradigm of Conflict Theory 10 Chapter 2: Historical Background of Education 13 Chapt...

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