Chapter 22 Flashcards
French scientist who discovered Germ threory
Pasteur
his reports were the basis of Britain’s first public health law
Chadwick
Helped standardise Chemical sterilization of equipment
Lister
Invented the periodic table and the periodic law
Mendeleev
Discovered the process of natural selection
Darwin
applied Darwin’s theory to human affairs; the human race is driven to ever-greater specialization and progress by a brutal economic struggle
Spencer
the idea that disease was caused by the spread of living organisms that could be controlled
Germ Theory
the idea of Jeremy Bentham that social policies should promote the “greattest good for the greatest number”
utalitarianism
the 19th century gendered division of labor and lifestyles that cast men as breadwinners and women as homemakers
separate spheres
a militant movement for women’s right to vote led by middle-class British women around 1900
suffrage movement
marriage based on romantic love and middle-class family values
companionate marriage
ideas of Darwin that applied the theory of biological evolution to human affairs and saw the human race as driven by an unending economic struggle
Social Darwinism
a literary movement that, in contrast to Romanticism
Realism
the highly skilled workers, such as factory foremen and construction bosses, who made up of about 15%
labor aristocracy
poorly paid handicraft production, often carried out by married women
Sweated industries
