The nineteenth century was a point in history where the mighty industry ascended. ... Bellamy saw this issue of social inequality as the largest issue facing this nineteenth century society. ... It is assumed that if this was true in the nineteenth century, industry might have not even survived, and the growth of the country in general would have not been as successful. ... Religious and secular culture seemed to have a reasonable and humanizing effect in the nineteenth century. ... The nineteenth century was the breeding ground for the progresses that would ari...

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Towards the end of the nineteenth century, reform movements were sweeping across America. ... One of the greatest changes that had occurred during the nineteenth century was the rise of enormous businesses. ... The changes of the nineteenth century did not apply to farmers alone. ... The last third of the nineteenth century also experienced reformation motivations in the cities. ... Towards the end of the nineteenth century, individuals were begging for reform. ...

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The nineteenth century was a benchmark in the studying of mankind and of society. ... As stated by Nisbet on page 9; "The major sociologists of the century, from Comte and Tocqueville to Weber and Durkheim, were caught up in the currents of the three great ideologies of the nineteenth centuries: Liberalism, radicalism, and conservatism." ... Authority and religion are probably in my eyes the biggest Benjamin 2 and most influential aspects of the eighteenth century. ... With the possible exception of the Bolshevik Revolution in the twentieth century, no event since the fall of Rome in the fi...

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The Need to Believe In the late 18th century, a significant belief in the history of the world had arisen. ... Racial superiority reified and assimilated into folk culture because of American racial ideologies in the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. ... From the mid-nineteenth century and on, science began to prove biological evidence further anchoring the belief of white superiority. ... The need to believe in a racial superiority existed due to late eighteenth and nineteenth century racial ideologies, the association of racial superiority with power, progress, etc., and as a jus...

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Throughout the nineteenth century, women's rights became apparent because of the civil war as seen through women's effects of economic, social, cultural, and political landscape of the nation. ... Women would later gain the right to vote with the passing of the nineteenth amendment. ... Similarly, the fact that women could not vote in the nineteenth century was of no impedance to Dorothea Dix. ... The nineteenth century were pivotal years in the evolution of women's rights in America. ... Therefore, these stepping stone paved the way for women's right, even for Hillary Cli...

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Henrik Ibsen's play, Hedda Gabler is primarily concerned with representing and critiquing bourgeois Norwegian society in the nineteenth century. ... Another symbol, which serves to link Hedda to her pre-marital identity and also serves to construct her in terms of difference when compared to endorsed female figures of nineteenth century is her association with pistols. ... This combined with the symbolic meaning of autumn and stagnation is linked to the flowers at the beginning of the play and serves highlights Hedda's entrapment within the prescribed roles for women in bourgeois s...

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Individualism became crucial to people's lives throughout the 18th, 19th, and early 20th centuries because of the key social movements and changing political structures. ... The Romantic Movement and its stress on emotion also influenced the spread of nationalism in nineteenth-century Europe. ... Nationalism became a kind of spiritual force that rivaled religion in the nineteenth century, and it led to the establishment of new nations and national movements throughout Europe. ...

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In the eighteenth century, talking about sex became public interest. ... Foucault incorporates the education system in the eighteenth century as the next institution to incite discourse about sex. ... The hierarchical education system of the eighteenth century inadvertently incited a discourse about sex. The evolution of the discourse about sex continued into the nineteenth century. ... The beginning of the nineteenth century brought superior medical knowledge; knowledge of anatomy for example was far superior than before. ...

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Alternatively, the battle royal that occurs in the banquet hall is a shameful representation of the imbalance in society that occurred during the nineteenth century. ... The hypocritical actions of the whites is a representation of the racial segregation that occurred in the nineteenth century whereas the rules for the lottery demonstrate the sexism associated with tradition. ... Furthermore, Ralph Ellison successfully displays the fixture of social imbalance during the nineteenth century through the narrator's speech. ...

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Social Darwinism and Eugenics of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries are often seen as theories based on scientific knowledge. ... Usually when writers in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century wrote on this theory they rarely used the actual term Social Darwinism. ... I would define social Darwinism as a defunct social theory in which people tried to determine fitness within society using race and class that often was an excuse for acting out on social anxieties of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries in industrialized countries. Social Darwinism in the U...

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Britain in the late nineteenth century was a world leading economic and military power. ... The Introduction of pensions for the old had been around in Germany since the late nineteenth century, it was not introduced in Britain until 1908. ... The introduction of National Insurance proved that the government (especially Lloyd George) was highly aware that poverty and sickness needed to be tackled if the working classes were going to enjoy any kind prosperity in twentieth century Britain. ...

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Certain aspects of seventeenth century philosophy left room for human err, such as the easily influenced mind and its ability to misrepresent information, beside the already prevalent social tension amongst classes of the time that would have a eruptive impact society's subconscious. ... The highest ideology of nineteenth century liberalism was that economically, maximum freedom would only come as the result of the limited power of government. ...

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During the nineteenth century, marriage was an important factor in a woman's life. ... In essence, Pride and Prejudice epitomizes the importance of wealth and social class during the nineteenth century and emphasizes the contingency of potential relationships that could cultivate between two opposing lifestyles. ...

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In "A Doll's House" Ibsen's bourgeois character Nora is suppressed by the nineteenth century patriarchy by which her husband Torvald and money lender Krogstad exercise against her to their advantages. ... Mrs Linde did not embody the traditional values of the nineteenth century patriarchy; rather she challenged them and this resulted in her becoming to some extent a social outcast. ...

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It was the social contract theorists, Hobbes, Locke and Rousseau, who first arrived at explanations of inequality in the eighteenth century. ... It is therefore important to remember that whilst the concept of class was only recognised by mankind in the seventeenth century, its existence may be traced back to the origins of mankind. ... Work as employment i therefore of declining importance as a source of social identity in the second half of the twentieth century. ... As work declines in importance in the twentieth century, so too do other factors become relevant for the analysis of stratif...

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Though much has changed since the 18th century, some ideas have remained. ... Austen gives great examples of how society controlled behavior in the 18th century through Sir Walter and Elizabeth. ... "Jane Austen has taught her readers about the nineteenth-century gentleman's relation to his money: he has to have inherited, not made, it. ...

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In most sports and some wars there are clear winners and losers, but for other events in life the outcomes are uncertain. For many years it has been customary to regard the French Revolution as the decisive turning point of modern European history. In spite of every storm and stress France st...

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The Victorian age produced many different types of writers- some wrote about the lower classes, others discussed new revolutionary ideas- whether in science, mathematics or philosophy. Oscar Wilde was one of the greatest writers during the late nineteenth century. Instead of focusing on the lower cl...

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The Argentine culture is not a culture only based on the region, it is a mix of cultures especially, because of the constant immigration of the Eastern people in the past. The Argentine culture is very special in the way they relate with people. One problem of the Argentineans is that in many occa...

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The functionalist thoery can be traced to a movement in the late nineteenth-century under the influences of Darwinism on the biological and social sciences. It is an attempt to understand the world, and it tests the cause and effect of sociological behavior. Some of the more famous functionalists ar...

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Is sociology value free? "Can Sociology Be Value Free?" Value neutrality is a term used by Weber to indicate the necessary objectivity researchers need when investigating problems in the social sciences. Weber also cautioned against the making of value judgements which coincide with the o...

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Therefore, trying to see the current situation and the particular person in it as a consistent change of certain trends, ages, political slogans, can be more accurately (and humanistic understanding) to understand Israelis who attack Palestinians, the right-hander in Poland or return to the style and ideology of curves thirties of the last century in modern Russia. ... Although, one should not perceive this concept as a new revolutionary way to understand society, because a lot of scholars find: "positions it in terms of Mills's ambition to return sociology to the great European trad...

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Through the late nineteenth century, as coal and electricity supplanted water power, industry moved from riverside factory towns to cities. ... In the last three decades of the twentieth century, as the existence of ghettos proved an intractable problem, sociologists postulated various hypotheses to explain the ghetto. ...

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Let us see, from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries America was considered to be founded by intellectuals, people with wide varieties of learning, rhetorical powers and people of deep faith to what the twentieth century brings us an age of media, where intelligence has been seen to diminish. ...

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If these techniques strengthen him in his nineteenth-century individualism (itself no ideal state of affairs), they only aggravate the split between the material structures of society, the social institutions, and the forces of production, on the one hand, and man's personal tendencies, on the other. ...

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