Chapter 16 Flashcards
By the start of WWI, most major nations of Europe
began providing free public education for the masses
Auguste Comte developed the theory of
positivism
Darwin’s Descent of Man
contended that neither the origin of human nor human character required the existence of a God
Friedrich Nietzche portrayed Christianity as a religion that
glorified human weakness
Theodor Herzl
called for a separate Jewish state in which Jewish rights and liberties would be protected
What type of view of women emerged in late 19th century fiction and art, inspired largely by pseudoscience
mysogyny
Most social scientists of the late 19th and early 20th century
reinforced traditional gender roles
Which of the following most helped the school-teaching profession grow?
state-sponsored education
Which of the following modern-day practices would the Social Darwinists of the 19th century be most likely to support?
UN peacekeeping troops in war-torn countries
The factor that caused the greatest loss of faith in Christianity among literate Europeans was
doubt about the historical validity of the Bible
The primary reason churches opposed state-financed schools was they feared
future generations educated in state-financed schools would lack religious training
The Contagious Disease Acts in England were designed to
protect men from contracting diseases from prostitutes
What did Charles Darwin, Sigmund Freud, Karl Vogol, and T. H. Huxley have in common?
They claimed that science showed women were inferior to men
Which of these regions of Europe had lower literacy rates in the late 1800s
southern and eastern
Sigmund Freud was unusual in paying close attention to
dreams
