Social Science 104 Final Review Flashcards
The Great Chain of Being
“All creatures on Earth can be hierarchically arranged from simplest to most complex(with human beings at the top). Assumes that species are fixed. Assumes that nature is a fixed ideals of progress and purpose.” (Darwinism Revolution slideshow)
Humans are at the top
All life is interconnected in a graduated scale from least perfect to most perfect
What’s an animal, What’s a human? - Dr. Moreau
Asymmetrical Relationships
Imperialism depends on asymmetrical relationships which is the unequal power between Westerners and non-Westerners
Ex. Great Britain controlled India’s trade and phased out their cloth making while India received nothing in return
Tech differences between the west and non west, this is why imperialism was so successful (unequal access to tech)
Pan-Slavism
“A slavic nationalist movement sponsored by the Russian Empire. Pan Slavism was especially threatening to the stability of the Austrian-Hungarian Empire.”
Defense of the Realm Act (DORA)
Introduced in 1914 to give the government more control over people’s lives
One control of the act was a ban on buying rounds of drinks. People got drunk and were more inclined to say things that they did not like about the government
Retreat from idea of liberalism of people
supposed to maximize production and maintain morale
CENSORSHIP! which undermined individuals basic freedoms
Article 231
The Allied and Associated Governments affirm and Germany and allies accepts the responsibility for causing all the loss and damage to which the Allied and Associated Governments and their nationals have been subjected as a consequences of the war imposed upon them by the aggression of Germany and her allies.” Germany accepts responsibility for the war
If they did not pay, they would be subject to being invaded by France and Britain
- they do end up invading because of a missed payment
France wanted a harsher punishment but american president agreed upon these terms
This took away territory, agricultural resources, reduced army and navy size
- this is what started the stab in the back legend (Treaty of Versailles)
Freikorps
right wing group of former german soldiers who did not agree with the Treaty of Versailles
-filled with foreign soldiers
-evidence of the weak commitment to the values of liberal democracy of the Weimar republic
-so worried about communism that they were willing to add a non liberal solution, undermining a healthy liberal society
considered paramilitary since they modeled after German’s OG military but were not legit armed forces
-used violence to maintain law and order
- slowly transitioned into the Nazi Party
“stab in the back legend”
Freidrich Ebert becomes the new chancellor of Germany
-believed that the former chancellor stabbed Germany in the back for signing the Treaty of Versailles since it was a cowardly move
- Germany was not the only country to blame for war
General Paul Von Hindenburg is elected president in 1925
- loyal to Germany’s militarism
Colonial and Indian Exhibition
Showcased Britains colonies in 1886
-5.5 million attendees
Largest part was dedicated to India
- humans made to stand on display as an exhibit
- Dancers, weavers, and people cooking
- Indians were considered to be “exotic”
A demonstration of Britain’s imperial power and dehumanized these people just like a zoo exhibit
- social darwinist narrative see the British as having economic unity with their colonies
- british way of life was more advanced
only about the colonies, not about britain
“Himmler was the perfect Bureaucrat”
violence taken out of the hands of the “bullies and the hoodlums”
bad people doing something bad=evil
sporadic bullying turned into systematic terror
Did what he believed his duty was without any bias
- wanted to desensitize the men who were doing the killing
- “overcome feelings of compassion and achieve what was in fact perfect bureaucratic objectivity”
- reasons for killing was due to organization rather than moral
known for his starvation diet
- clean violence
- people died without it being entirely the Nazi’s fault
Big Thinks
Island of Dr. Moreau
- ape man thinks that he is equal to Prendick because of his five fingers
- prendick develops big thinks
- ape man memorizes these “Thinks” and tells them to the other beast folk which makes him look smarter
creates confusion of who is human and who is beast folk
Coca-colonization
spread of american culture symbolized by the reach of the coca cola company
protest consumer society which was an ideology in america after WWII
- more household appliances bought
- consuming more culture and stuff
to french observers it seemed like colonization all over again
- money going back into american corporations
- fear of american businesses and france was defeated by the Nazis so they wanted to recover financially
contingent forms of belonging
when you score for england, you’re english but when you miss, you’re black
belonging depends on how you are seen
- post colonial ideology
neo imperialism
- western companies extracting wealth from and imposing patterns of consumption onto other parts of the world
minute on indian education
-english only valid language
the agricultural deal
