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Social Cohesion - Answer belief that individuals are part of a great web of social relationships.
Individuals' welfare dependent on of welfare of society
Muckrakers - Answer Crusading journalist who began to direct public attention toward social,
economic, and political injustices
Ida Tarbell - Answer notable muckraker who conducted a study on Standard Oil trust
Lincoln Steffens - Answer -reporter for McClure's magazine and author of The Shame of Cities
-Portrayed machine government and boss rule.
-crusader against municipal corruption
William Graham Sumner - Answer argued that people's fortune reflected their inherent
"fitness" for survival
The Hull House - Answer -Famous settlement house opened by Jane Addams (social worker).
-Influenced the construction of other settlement houses to help immigrants adapt to American
culture.
American Medical Association - Answer scientific standard to becoming a doctors & licensing
with laws
General Federation of Women's Clubs (GFWC) - Answer Coordinated activities of local
organization with 1 million members. Involved in females' social betterment.
Charlotte Perkins Gilman - Answer wrote Women and Economics, arguing that the traditional
definition of gender roles was exploitative and outdated.
Children's Bureau in the Labor Department - Answer regulated the conditions of woman and
child labor