...Indeed it can be summarized in one diagram: figure 1.1. Before 1800 income per person—the food, clothing, heat, light, and housing available per head—varied across societies and epochs. But there was no upward trend. A simple but powerful mechanism explained in this book, the Malthusian Trap, ensured that short term gains in income through technological advances were inevitably lost through population growth. Thus the average person in the world of 1800 was no better off than the average person of 100,000 BC. Indeed in 1800 the bulk of the world population was poorer than their remote ancestors. The lucky denizens of wealthy societies such as eighteenth-century England or the Netherlands managed a material lifestyle equivalent to that of the Stone Age. But the vast swath of humanity in East and South Asia, particularly in China and Japan, eked out a living under conditions probably significantly poorer than those of cavemen. The quality of life also failed to improve on any other observable dimension. Life expectancy was no higher in 1800 than for hunter-gatherers: thirty to thirty-five years. Stature, a measure both of the quality of diet and of children’s exposure to disease, was higher in the Stone Age than in 1800. And while foragers Figure 1.1 World Economic History in One Picture. After 1800 income in some societies rose sharply, while in others it declined. satisfy their material wants with small amounts of work, the modest comforts...
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...RUNNING HEAD SOCIAL PROBLEMS 1 Social Problems SOCIAL PROBLEMS 2 Social Problems The study of social problems began back in the 1800's the early thinkers were concerned about the many social changes that were occurring were concerned and often wondered whether societies falling apart. There were many people with no jobs or very little income where slums and crowded housing were created. As a result of these social changes social problems in housing became very short causing poverty, a growing crime rate, which became typical in urban life. With the social change occurring people such as Auguste Comte a well known social thinker from France in the early 1800's became aware of and concerned about the social change and the growing social problems (Crone 2012 ). With the society falling apart Comte believed this was due to disorder believed...
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...America in the early 1800s, specifically 1800 to 1850, was beginning to move towards an industrialized society, with the factory system in the North, the cotton gin in the South, and more people moving out West. People came from all over to come to the US to find a new life, and because of this the US became a diverse country. Yet with all these improvements, the US didn't improve for everyone. Slavery was still practiced in a horrible amount in the South, especially because cotton was money, women had little say in anything, the US government was forcing Native Americans from their land to make room for new white settlers, immigrants into the country faced prejudice, and so many other groups lacked the rights that America is known...
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...Chapter 22 – Life in the Industrial Age. (1800-1914). (1) The Industrial Revolution Spreads. (2) The World of Cities. (3) Changing Attitudes and Values. (4) A New Culture. First Belgium. Factories. 1807. Daguerre Perfects. Photography. 1839. Darwin. Publishes. 1859. Wright Brothers. Fly. 1903. (1) The Industrial Revolution Spreads. Setting the Scene. The second Industrial Revolution is marked by the spread of industry, the development of new technologies, and the rise of big business. By 1880s, steel replaces steam as symbol. New Industrial Powers. In first Industrial Revolution Britain stands alone as world industrial giant. Britain tries to protect its lead through laws against export of inventions (or inventors). By mid-1880s, others challenge Britain dominance. In Europe. Elsewhere. 1807. Belgium becomes first European nation outside Britain to industrialize. British mechanic (William Cockerill) opens factories to make spinning, weaving machines. 1871. Germany unifies into powerful nation. Becomes Europe’s leading industrial power. 1900. USA emerges as world’s leading industrial power. Some nations in southern and eastern Europe (sans resources) are slower to industrialize. Japan industrializes rapidly after 1868 to become leading industrial power in Asia. Technology and Industry. In first Industrial Revolution inventions (like steam engine) are work of gifted tinkerers. In second Industrial Revolution professional chemists and engineers create new products. Early inventors...
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...Industrial Revolution, some societies traded this ancient poverty for amazing affluence. Historians and economists have long struggled to understand how this transition occurred and why it took place only in some countries. A scholar who has spent the last 20 years scanning medieval English archives has now emerged with startling answers for both questions. Gregory Clark, an economic historian at the University of California, Davis, believes that the Industrial Revolution -- the surge in economic growth that occurred first in England around 1800 -- occurred because of a change in the nature of the human population. The change was one in which people gradually developed the strange new behaviors required to make a modern economy work. The middle-class values of nonviolence, literacy, long working hours and a willingness to save emerged only recently in human history, Dr. Clark argues. Because they grew more common in the centuries before 1800, whether by cultural transmission or evolutionary adaptation, the English population at last became productive enough to escape from poverty, followed quickly by other countries with the same long agrarian past. Dr. Clark’s ideas have been circulating in articles and manuscripts for several years and are to be published as a book next month, "A Farewell to Alms" (Princeton University Press). Economic historians have high praise for his thesis, though many disagree with parts of it. "This is a great book and deserves attention," said Philip...
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...Development of Corrections Candice Rogers Axia College of University of Phoenix CJS/230 Feb. 27, 2012 Before the 1800s, women in prison were treated just as the men were treated; they were also punished just as men were. The only woman that was treated differently was pregnant women. The pregnant women were spared punishment until after they had given birth. The labor they had to endure was a little different than what the men had to endure, but they were all required to work just as hard. The hard work the women had to endure was things such as sewing, cleaning, laundry, and cooking. The women felt liked they were over worked; they were expected to act like women but were treated like men. Nowadays, I believe women’s prisons have changed dramatically. The women don’t have fewer rules than men. However, the women send and receive more calls from children and family, received and sent more mail, had more visits, and participated in more social clubs. I do believe women get treated better than men in prisons today. This does not include how the women are treated by the other inmates. Every prison, women or not, can be very violent. Three basic arguments established in the 1800s that supported the separation of juvenile prisons from adult prisoners were the following: They believe penitentiary life would be too hard on the youth. They believed the juveniles would learn bad habits from the older criminals and the experience would embittered by the confident. And they would...
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...There is a lot of talk of how the Civil War affected African-Americans in the late 1800’s and what this did for their rights, but this was also a huge time for the women’s rights movement. Seeing the advances in freedom and equality that African-Americans had made after the Civil War many women thought this would be the perfect time for them to push for their own equality and if nothing else at least the right to vote. The women’s right movement was starting to gain traction, but once the Civil War begun their momentum was gone. Some of the women’s groups saw an opportunity with the animosity towards African-Americans and tried to use this to their advantage. They would work with the southerners who still wanted no freedom for African-Americans...
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...urban sociology Chelsea Ng Chapter 5 SA 364 301123322 Urbanization in the late 1800's gave rise to more expanded and populated cities. Such urbanization in the United States “benefited the economic and political opportunities (111)” by increasing the labour force and creating transportation efficiency. Although Chapter 5 primarily focuses on urbanization in the 1800’s of the United States, urbanization has also produced a multicultural connection of businesses. Urbanization in the United States has been shaped by immigration, and urban transportation. Roughly forty million immigrants settled in the U.S. between 1800’s and 1900’s. The increasing number of factories created an intense need for labour, providing opportunities for immigrants to work. Opportunities can be defined differently though because immigrants had worked in harsh and unlivable conditions due to their ethnicity. Nevertheless, population churning and immigration transformed United States from an agrarian to an urban nation. Immigration provides many opportunities since “each new immigrant had to be processed…meant more government jobs [were needed]…[created] specialized businesses catering to the needs of arrivals from foreign lands (111).” I can apply these growth opportunities to Richmond today. The more immigrants there are, more jobs are required to “cater to the needs (111)” of immigrants. There are increasingly more...
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...Minority Populations in the U.S. Child Welfare System Diane Blanscett BSHS 301 November 1, 2010 Caroline Nyairo MSC, Marriage and Family Therapy Minority Populations in the U.S. Child Welfare System History of Minority Populations During the 1700s and the 1800s, the United States went through political, economic, and environmental upset that caused a large number of orphans. Most of the children roaming the streets were of immigrants who could not care for them because of economic issues or because they were single parent homes. Society had little tolerance for the children. During the mid- 1800s, there was a shift in attitude toward children because of the number of families affected by the Civil War. Compassion and understanding toward the orphans became the mainstream thought. In addition, there was a shift in religious belief, and that led to the belief that children were to be cared for, and sheltered. During the mid-1800s, families who could not take care of their children could take them to a child asylum for a fee. If the parents could not make the monthly payments, the children became wards of the state. Also during this time, there were orphan trains, which would take the children to farms in urban America, thereby alleviating the number of homeless orphans. Most of the children orphaned and homeless were in the minority population of immigrants. U.S. Child Welfare Response Over the last one hundred years, the United States child welfare system has...
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...In the mid-1800s of the United States issues in society aroused. Problems from the fields to the Congress became unbearable. Eventually all these issues lead to advisement of social and political reforms all over America. In result of those reforms changes to the United States of America came drastically. First, Women’s Rights became a major issue for the Congress. After the writing of the Declaration of Sentiments a new point of view of women was seen. The idea was to show people (specifically women) that females had no real equality in America. “He has compelled her to submit to laws, in the formation of which she had no voice” (Document1). It had proved to women that they were controlled and followed by the laws, and could not have any rights...
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...motion in the early 1800s. Some progress was made in regards to how individuals with exceptionalities were treated; however, there was also a period of time where no progress was seen. In fact, instead of progress, for many years things stayed the same for individuals with disabilities, and then there was a decline. Throughout the years, themes developed which impacted the progression...
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...Problems that were present in American life during the late 1800s and early 1900s, are child labor and their unfair working conditions. The Jungle and it's report about unhealthy meat packing industries. Susan Anthony and her fight for women's rights . Body Paragraphs (2-3 paragraphs depending on question) (incorporate details/examples from graphic organizer): During the time of 1890 an percentage of 18.1% children were working due to their harsh living conditions but as the years go on the percentages decreases now during the year of 1920 it was 11.3%. Conditions at the factories were very difficult for the children they had to step on the machines just so they can do the work and sometimes even get stuck in it. An example why children are getting...
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...Americanization of Immigrants and Native Americans In the late 1800’s immigration has increased immensely. Not only was the population growing but substantial problems went along with the immigration. In restatement, the immigrants came to America to find better opportunity upon a future they want to achieve. The types of immigrants were the Irish, Germans, Chinese, etc. These people wanted to seek for an opportunity to escape their religion, harsh government in their native country, and own land. As the population grew, the society had to change and step up to it’s capability of becoming a stable nation. Some of the significant things that occurred in the life of an immigrant in the society were economical and political problems. Some of the economical changes the immigrants have made, for example were the jobs they had to make money. Many of the 25 million immigrants that entered America between 1866 and 1915 became factory workers. However, for immigrants in the cities, factory work was one of the few options available. Agriculture jobs and factory jobs were the main areas of employment for a lot of former slaves and immigrants. In factories, they had poor lighting, unsanitary conditions, and the jobs were highly dangerous. Women, men and children were able to work in these conditions for up to 12 hours per day. As soon as one became ill or died another person would step over into their past job without a second thought. Another problem that occurred was the population...
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...Starting back from the late 1800s to the 1960s there was a search for solutions for the development of four major approaches to management, classic approach, behavioral approach, systems approach and contingency approach; according to Evolution of Management. Scientists have been visually examining the demeanor of employees and managers due to collaboration between individuals and machines, inexperienced in running superior size factories, and the greater the business the more problems came with it. Each of these approaches is presented differently from one another in their own unique way. First was the classical approach to management, which spotlighted mainly on the machines and systems that needed to perform each task efficiently. In the late 1800s the social desiderata of employees didn’t matter. It withal had two components, scientific management and administrative management. Scientific management was to help ameliorate the efficiency of work by systematic and scientific study of work methods, implements and performance standards. The administrative management accentuates that management as a function can be applied to any size or kind of organization. Its main purport was the organization holistically, and not individual workers in the workplace. Second, was the behavioral approach to management, which stressed management’s understandings of the importance of people’s needs, and attitudes within the company. After nine years of researching what conditions in the workplace...
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...comes second to the likes of Mozart or Bach. Beethoven is best known for his compositions, which include 32 piano sonatas, 5 concertos for piano, 16 string quartets and 9 symphonies (Anderson 1044). He is also known for the composition of other music, choral works and songs. Early Childhood Beethoven was born on the 16th of December, 1770 in Bonn and baptized the following day (Dalhaus & Whittall 6). His father was originally from Brabant, Belgium, but had moved to Bonn where he served as a musician at the local court. Despite his weakness for alcohol, Beethoven’s father was quite influential in shaping the music career of Beethoven as it was through him that young Beethoven was exposed to music. From an early age, Beethoven was taught music by Christiano Gottlob Neefe, a famous opera composer and conductor, and Johann van Beethoven who was his father. Johann envisioned creating a new kind of Mozart in his son and would train him every evening on returning from the court. As a teenager, Beethoven earned some money by serving as an assistant to his teacher Neefe. Beethoven gave his first public performance at the young age of seven in Cologne. Three years later, at the age of 12, Beethoven published his very first work referred to as 9 variations in C minor for piano (Prevot 1). Prevot asserts that the performance by Beethoven was so exemplary that the following year,...
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