Late capitalism Study guides, Class notes & Summaries

Gilded Age the Gilded Age was the period following the Civil War, roughly from the end of Reconstruction in 1877 to the turn of the twentieth century. A gilded patina is "pretty" on the outside / "ugly" on the inside. Immigration European Immigration / Nativism (hatred towards immigrants) / Nativist ideals towards Irish Catholics. Chinese Exclusion Act (1882) First federal law to restrict immigration (1882) / Chinese had helped with the construction of the Transcontinental Rai...

Walden Study Guide Questions with Complete Solutions 2024 Why do you think Thoreau singles out individual groups of readers as he begins his first essay? Because he wants to answer specific questions that they ask. What does Thoreau mean when he says that "the mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation?" Is that still true today? "What is called resignation is confirmed desperation. From the desperate city you go into the desperate country and have to console yourself with the brav...

Which of the following helped fuel economic growth by encouraging people to buy American goods? Protective tariffs Steel changed people's lives by making possible the Construction of skyscrapers A cartel differs from a monopoly in that Businesses making the same product agree to limit production Cartels, monopolies, trusts, and horizontal and vertical integration all share the goal of Increasing profits Capitalism fueled industrialization by Encouraging entrepre...

Albert quizlet #500 Exam 57 Questions with Verified Answers François Guizot, revolutionary of 1830, became a powerful minister of Louis-Philippe, the so-called 'citizen king' who replaced the absolutist King Charles X after the 1830 revolution. Here he tells the story of the history of France from the 1789 revolution until his own revolution, 41 years later. Which of the below adjectives best describes how he sees that history? - CORRECT ANSWER A Guizot thinks that the history of France'...

AQA Sociology A Level Families and Households Exams Questions 2024 Functionalist views on the role of the family - correct answer-In functionalist thought, the family is a particularly important institution as this it the 'basic building block' of society which performs the crucial functions of socialising the young and meeting the emotional needs of its members. Stable families underpin social order and economic stability. Parsons believes the family has 2 functions; Socialisation and Stab...

UCLA COMM 10 FINAL QUESTIONS WITH 100% CORRECT ANSWERS Primary vs. Secondary Media - answerSomething you focus your attention on, vs. something you pay attention to secondarily, while primarily involved in something Types of Functions of the Mass Media - answerContent function Medium function Manifest function Latent function Content function - answerA function based on what the medium conveys. Ex: the weather channel tells us what to wear on a given day. Medium function - answerA func...

Postmodernism Question and answers rated A+ 2023/2024 Postmodernism historical background - correct answer Postmodernism: refers to changes in the social and economic conditions that help to produce these styles and ways of being a subject. Response to late capitalism (1960s). tied to shifts of the demise of the nation-state, dissolution of national sovereignty, skeptical embrace of science and technology in the wake of Holocaust/nuclear bombing of Japan, which showed how scientific ideas could...

PostmodernismPostmodernism historical background - correct answer Postmodernism: refers to changes in the social and economic conditions that help to produce these styles and ways of being a subject. Response to late capitalism (1960s). tied to shifts of the demise of the nation-state, dissolution of national sovereignty, skeptical embrace of science and technology in the wake of Holocaust/nuclear bombing of Japan, which showed how scientific ideas could be turned against humankind and toward ac...

AMSCO AP US History Chapter 26Servicemen's Readjustment Act of 1944 (GI Bill) - correct answers Signed into law by President Franklin D. Roosevelt on June 22, 1944, it was also known as the GI Bill. It provided veterans of the Second World War with funds for college education, unemployment insurance, and housing. (p. 557) early marriages - correct answers One sign of confidence in post-World War II era was an explosion of marriages at a younger age and new births. (p. 558) baby boom - cor...

Anthro Inquisitive Exam 1, questions and answers 100% correct Identify the statements that describe anthropology - Anthropology is the study of past and present human diversity and the application of that knowledge - Eighteenth and nineteenth century colonialism gave rise to the discipline types of anthropologists in order starting with who studies the oldest material to who studies the newest material 1. Paleoanthropologists 2. Prehistoric archaeologists 3. Historic archaeologists ...