Cahpter 10-11 Flashcards

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secularization

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the transformation of a society from close identification with religious values toward nonreligious values

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Romanticism

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artistic, literary, and intellectual movement that originated in Europe toward the end of the 18th century

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realism

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movement that rejeced romanticism and wanted to portray lower and middle class life as it actually was

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natural selection

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the principle that some organisms are more adaptable to the environment than others

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social structure of the mass society

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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.
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modernism

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a movement in which writers and artists rebelled against the traditional literary/artists styles

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