One was the dilemma of how to maintain the material benefits that flowed from the industrial revolution while bringing the powerful forces creating those benefits under democratic control and managing economic opportunity. The other was the issue of how to maintain democracy and national identity in the context
There are three distinct characteristics that allow us to recognize the difference from modernity; changes in capitalism, changes in the consumer society, and the rise of a global society. There are many ways in which society in modernity can be separated from society at present in postmodernity. In modernity reason was based on the foundations upwards, whereas in postmodernity there are multiple factors and multiple levels of reasoning, almost wed-orientated. In modernity science was viewed as the universal optimism, whereas in postmodern times science was seen as a realism of limitations. Lastly, in modernity language was referential; which contrasts with the view in postmodernity that language has a meaning in social contexts through its usage.
But in the end it was the rising middle-class and their values of bureaucratic control, rationality, and scientific management that prevailed over the outdated mode of production and value system. The search for order, which Wiebe presents as the main theme of this time period, is characterized as a search for order in values, economic stability, and a kind of core political ideology as a standard. The new system develops as a powerful
He most cogently articulated this idea in "The Significance of the Frontier in American History," According to Turner how has American society evolved? These turned his attention to the great task of subduing them to the purposes of civilization, and to the task of advancing his economic and social status in the new democracy which he was helping to create. Art, literature, refinement, scientific administration, all had to give way to this Titanic labor. How is American frontier different than the European frontier? Turner's idea of the American frontier was a place open for settlement; without (generally) a strong military presence to restrict this.
Assignment 1.2: Industrialization After the Civil War Strayer University Professor Irina Popova-Nowak HIS 105 – Contemporary U.S. History Jennifer C Maloney Due Date: August 4, 2014 The United States took steps toward becoming a much more industrialized nation following the Civil War. The effects of industrialization in the United States between 1865 and 1920 were visible in many aspects of American Society. Industrialization in the United States had both advantages and disadvantages in its effects on different groups in American life as well as the economy, politics and United States society altogether. Urbanization Industrialization and urbanization, or growth of cities, went hand in hand. Business and industrialization centered on the cities.
List a few reasons economists speculate could be the cause of the slump in productivity increasing presence in the work force of women and teens (had lower skills, less likely to take full time jobs),declining investment in new machinery, general shift of American economy from manufacturing to services B. Sharply rising oil prices in the 1970s also fed inflation, but its deepest roots lay in government policies of the 1960s—especially Lyndon Johnson’s insistence
The status and role of the elderly in the future will increase because the birthrate has dropped to an all-time low. b. There will be an elderly revolution, termed the “silver-haired rebellion,” which will place much of the lost power and status back into the hands of the older segment of society. c. As the rate of technological change accelerates, knowledge quickly becomes obsolete, and this decreases the status and role of the elderly (they are no longer the storage houses of technological knowledge; libraries and databanks have taken over this role). d. In the future, there will be a major reorganization of kinship and the family, which will restore power to the elderly.
Shirky starts by revealing the case about how our new technology has enabled amateurs to make a large number of average grade information and products, lowering our levels of what is considered acceptable. Shirky then provides horrid predictions of the future caused by the collapse of culture. He adds that these fears are actually true and have been around for a long period of time, proving this claim through historical references of the Guttenberg’s press and the Protestant reformation. Shirky shifts to focus on the importance of the innovations that occur after: the new norms are increasingly made the “intellectual output” of society. In the article Shirky establishes the point that we are now going through a similar growth in our publishing capability as we had in our past.
According to this view, the root cause of the Great Depression was a global over-investment in heavy industry capacity compared to wages and earnings from independent businesses, such as farms. The solution was the government must pump money into consumers' pockets. That is, it must redistribute purchasing power, maintain the industrial base, but re-inflate prices and wages to force as much of the inflationary increase in purchasing power into consumer spending. The economy was overbuilt, and new factories were not needed. The common view among economic historians is that the Great Depression ended with the advent of World War II.
In the late 1920’s a change in the economy started, this change is now known as The Great Depression. The downfall of the economy started with banks and stock-market insecurity, and halted with President Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s New Deal. This revolutionary reform attempted to improve our nation by re-establishing American’s faith. Although not everybody regained the faith, the majority of people devoted to The New Deal rebuilt themselves, our economy, and the overall government. Without the help of our 32nd President, often called by his initials FDR, America could have ended in anarchy.