Discuss Exposition Reading

“In 1900 Europeans had good reason to feel pleased with the recent past and confident about the future”

Discuss and give specific examples from the reading to illustrate this point.

Modern Europe: The Birth of Mass Society (Assignment #1)

Positivism

Faith in science – faith in progressSociety runs on “order and progress”:"Love as a principle and order as the basis; progress as the goal"

Flag of Brazil – inspired by Positivist Auguste Comte

Industry and Growth of Cities

Class distributionWhat did the emergence of an industrial society mean for rich poor and those in between?

THE MIDDLE CLASSES

Class Distribution: the working classes

Changes in Family Life/Gender Roles

1859

1910

How did working class and middle class families change as they coped with the challenges and opportunities of the developing urban civilization?

Politics for the masses

Women and the right to votehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qTPquhaRxUw

Science

Second industrial revolutionPositivism – All things knowable need to be provable.

Art