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Who was the father of modern sociology and positivism? | Auguste Comte |
What was Charles Darwin's writing that explained natural selection? | On the Origin of Species (1859) |
Who developed the concept of social darwinism? | Herbert Spencer |
How did Albert Einstein's theory of relativity contribute to the debate over a rational world? | The new science undermined the stability of Newtonian physics, thus the universe was uncertain instead of constant laws of nature. |
What literary movement portrayed the hypocrisy and dullness that underlay middle class life? | realism |
What was the theme of modernism in the arts? | critical of middle class society and morality>trying to create new forms |
What was Virginia Woolf's feminist writing that challenged society's male dominance? | A Room of One's Own (1928) |
What art form played with light and color, middle class leisure outdoor activities? | impressionism |
Georges Seurat and Vincent Van Gogh are classified under what art form? | post-impressionism |
Pablo Picasso developed what art form? | cubism |
The painting Guernica by Picasso is about what event? | Spanish Civil War |
What art form stressed the obsturd as a challenge to the reason of capitalist middle class society? | Dadaism |
Who authored The Will to Power and The Birth of Tragedy? | Friedrich Nietzsche |
Sigmund Freud maintained the two most instintual human natures are what? | sex and aggressive drive for power |
What was the theme of Houston Stewart Chamberlain's foundations of the 19th Century (1899) | Exalted concept of a superior race and was anti Semitic |
Who lead late 19th C. Zionist movement? | Theodor Herzl |
The 2nd Industrial Revolution brought greater influence to which class of society? | the middle class |
What urban reforms characterize Europe prior to WWI? | public health reform to ward off spread of disease>sewers and water systems |
The 2nd Industrial Revolution encouraged the development of what social gender concept? | the cult of domesticity for the middle class woman |
What British suffragette's motto was "Deeds not Words"? | Emmeline Pankhurst |
What European nation was the last to grant women's suffrage (after WWII)? | France |
What was a British Fabian? | a socialist who was non-Marxist and for gradual democratic social reform |
How did Germany avoid socialist uprisings and demands? | Bismarck's old age and disability pension plans |
What uprising followed the Russian defeat to Japan in 1905? | Workers' uprising known as Bloody Sunday |
What was the result of the Bloody Sunday uprising? | the October Manifesto |
What was the result of the October Manifesto? | the first Russian constitution |
Who brought public disdain on the Romanov monarchy by 1916? | Rasputin |
Who lead the Bolsheviks? | Lenin |