Social Change

Question 1

What were the two changes/challenges?

Answer 1

challenge to traditional women’s role

challenge to traditional religious influence

Question 2

What is suffrage?

Answer 2

term to describe right to vote

Question 3

What were women?

Answer 3

second class citizens, regardless of benefits of family, wealth and position to support them.

Question 4

What limited their pursuit in life for women? impact?

Answer 4

sexual division of labour and of roles within society

limited oppo to acquire position of power/authority and positions with status or pay equal to men.

Question 5

WHat did democracy do for womens challenge?

Answer 5

led to demand for female suffrage (right to vote)
demands for vote and increased involvement in world of paid work helped expand their experience/oppo and showed many women’s commitment to feminism.

Question 6

examples of challenge to religious belief?

Answer 6

• demand for religious tolerance failed to overturn superior position given to Christianity and centuries old hostility towards Jewish ppl.
• rivalry/hostility between Catholics and Protestants = evidence of sectarianism (view that one religion superior than others)

Question 7

What did these past example of religious challenge do in response?

Answer 7

increased challenges of the influence religion had within gov, edu system, law making and employment
evident in ‘Dreyfus affair’, in France

Question 8

What was the ‘Dreyfus affair’?

Answer 8

French army official accused Dreyfus of crime of treason as he was an easy target (Jewish) wihtin anti-Semitic (prejudice against Jews) culture in French army.
He supposedly passed on confidential documents to Germany. Found guilty and sensed to life imprisonment.
overtime, ppl believe he was innocent, but still found guilty again at new trial, even though real traitor was known.

Question 9

What was the ‘Drefus affair’ an example of?

Answer 9

mans right to freedom being subordinated to needs of military that believed itself to be above law and acted outside limit of its authority.

Question 10

IMpact of ‘Dreyfus Affair’?

Answer 10

• divided french society for years
• unite and strengthened left-wing forces in France
• separation of church and state in French affair
• increased secularisation (the decline in influence of religion) in society.