For years, the two key political parties remained almost equal when it came to political strength in the county. The Democratic Party rejected the issues concerning the currency issue that the democrats fell to a low status and lost. The issue at hand with the currency was centered on using silver and gold in order to expand the amount of money that would be in circulation. Farmers, on the other hand, became more interested in bimetallism hoping that it would assist in the rising of both prices and wages. Also, during this time the industrial community opposed the usage of silver because they saw it as a waste of time and often thought that it would be inflationary.
No One to Throw a Party for the People Those with power tend to dictate the social norms, rules and laws of society. This is the basis of many sociological studies. When sociologists speak about power it is mostly referring to politics and more so not referring to the common man or “day-laborer.” In this chapter that we read this week, “The 1890’s: Economic Depression and Political Crisis” this reoccurring motif of the man in power controlling how the common man lives is very evident. The 1890’s was a time when most people would hear about America as the land of opportunity and not think of a place with high unemployment rates and monopolists taking advantage of simple people just trying to feed their families. However, it was the
The molding of the men of Police Battalion 101 from ordinary men to ruthless killers is likened to the molding of the prison guards from ordinary men to sadistic authorities. The use of this experiment becomes especially relevant when considering the similarities between the compositions of the participants analyzed. In Zimbardo’s experiment, the twenty-four selected were predominantly white middle-class males and thus relatively “ordinary”. In Browning’s study, the Police Battalion 101 also fit this “ordinary” niche, which when considering their ages, class, origins, and motives, no indication that these men would become mass murderers was made present. They were ‘middle-aged family men of the working-class”(1), implying that they had been exposed to alternative worldviews because they had been socialized before the Nazis came to power and as the working-class, were one of the groups least inclined to support the Nazis.
Once the war-ended women got laid off from their jobs as men took them back. The postwar culture embraced a contradiction between the tensions of domestic ideals and individual success. This was hard for women because during World War II expectations were raised of what life could be like. Women believed it was possible to imagine these duel roles to experience economic dependence; however this ends
For example, Abigail Adams wrote to her husband John, during the writing of the Declaration to encourage him to include the rights of women, arguing that men have turned into tyrants in the past (Doc D). Although Abigail proved herself to be very intelligent John did not listen to his wife’s requests and women received no voice or representation in government under the Declaration or Constitution. Women along with other minority groups were not impacted at all by the Declaration of Independence because they were not included; only the fifteen percent of the population, or the white men with property experienced any sort of radical changes. Historians feel the
Harvard’s president suggested that there appeared to him and to many others to be a strong correlation between women in high positions and the fact that they were single and/or childless. He did not offer any research, but this was an informal talk and it is hardly surprising that Summers did not simply cite research studies to this particular audience. He also suggests that married men have historically been more willing to work long hours than married women and that certain social factors may discourage women from pursuing these types of careers. Tong responds by stating that 80 hour work weeks are not necessary to achieve academic excellence and that even if women did work 80 hours per week they would not earn as much. Ironically, she is admitting Summers’ first point by herself implying that even she does not want to work 80 hours and she further argues that women are discouraged from making these time commitments because of discrimination in terms of earnings.
Although the Industrial Revolution started before the war, with men leaving to fight for the Confederacy or the Union, women needed to start taking the places of men. This gave them the opportunity to become a part of society. Northern male laborers either supported the women or believed they should not be anywhere near the work force. Many men were biased against women in
All that chaos contributed to the male chauvinism we see in our current society. Women had to handle that change without any moral support. It is also important to remember the important role women took in both world wars. A “Jury of Her Peers”, demonstrates how hard marriage was for all women who did not enjoy their relationships. Women in those types of relationships were treated as objects instead of being valued as women of freedom which represent intelligence, compassion, love and beauty.
However, some women joined the work force and would do jobs that men previously had held. Some were not forced to, but they had to work as hard as they could to support their families during this difficult time. In contrast, the writer Norman Cousins commented that there was a negative opinion on the women’s presence in the workforce despite women willing to acquire a living wage. He also stated in his book that the federal government proscribed holding government jobs by both members of a married couple, and many localities stopped hiring women whose husbands with a minimum wage (Cousins 1939). Another aspect of the Depression affecting life of women was the moral argument against working-women.
Authors in the 1800s Authors in the 1800s tried to make changes to gender roles in the social status. The men were working class men and the women were either housewives or seen as inferior. This gave many women more leisure time, which they often used to get involved in political and social issues and spending time at home and doing the shopping, they were seen as important aspects of the coming consumer market. So then, the advertising industry targeted many of its campaigns specifically toward women. As a result, women's status in society started creeping up in the late 1800s.