FINAL EXAM (industrial revolution)

Question 1

what was the first thing to be industrialized?

Answer 1

weaving and cloth.

Question 2

what are some changes that happened in society during the industrial revolution?

Answer 2

• growth of industrial cities draws people to cities
• need to maintain past traditions, ties to family, etc. diminishes
• 100’s of years of social relations based on land-based economy, two classes, dominance of church teachings now changed.

Question 3

middle class is now ______?
industrialists are now ______?
workers are now ______?

Answer 3

petite bourgeoisie
bourgeoisie
proletariat

Question 4

why did capitalism emerge in europe? (Max Weber)

Answer 4

first new economic system develops here.
1) cities emerge on trade routes
2) production moves to factory
3) credit/debit accounting
4) labour rationalized to max
people also changed too

Question 5

what hold society together? (pre-modern or ‘traditional’)

Answer 5

ensured solidarity by:
1) shared beliefs, values, morals
2) strong ties to social groups, high social integration
as society got more complex these weakened.

Question 6

pre-modern society had ______ ______.

Answer 6

MECHANICAL SOLIDARITY

Question 7

mechanical solidarity (pre-modern society)

Answer 7

• life tasks were done mechanically (as tradition)
• labour shared, everyone pitched in
• common shared religious/social beliefs

Question 8

if you broke law or taboos you were ______. (pre-modern society)

Answer 8

PUNISHED.

Question 9

with shared work and beliefs this caused: _______ (pre-modern society)

Answer 9

people to think and act similarly.

Question 10

modern society is now called _______ society.

Answer 10

organic society.

Question 11

organic society (modern society)

Answer 11

• labour diversified, tasked interrelated in organic whole. parts act together.
• kinship, tribal ties weaken.
• fewer shared beliefs, morals.
• more diverse lives/experiences.
• work grows complex and specialized