Cahpter 10-11 Flashcards
secularization
the transformation of a society from close identification with religious values toward nonreligious values
Romanticism
artistic, literary, and intellectual movement that originated in Europe toward the end of the 18th century
realism
movement that rejeced romanticism and wanted to portray lower and middle class life as it actually was
natural selection
the principle that some organisms are more adaptable to the environment than others
social structure of the mass society
the new elite- made up of 5% of the pop. but controlled almost half of all of the wealth. bankers, industrialists, merchants— upper middle class
diverse middle class- upper middle class moved up so it left the rest of them. this group was doctors,lawyers, business, managers. then there was the lower middle class which was salespeople, bookkeepers, white collar workers.
modernism
a movement in which writers and artists rebelled against the traditional literary/artists styles