Keynote+on+Social+History

// **Keynote Presentations on European Social History** // // **1750-1900, comparing Chapters 20 and 24** //

// **Overall idea:** // The mass migration of European workers into cities during the Industrial Revolution dramatically changed European society. This resulted in significant changes to traditional patterns of family life, gender roles, child-rearing practices, and the overall standard of living.

// **Your task:** Your group will quickly put together a Keynote slide presentation that summarizes the major changes that occurred in one of these traditional patterns of social life. You must quickly divide up the tasks and get to work because the projects will be presented in the next class period.//

//1) To do this you will need to find information about the topic from before and after the Industrial Revolution. Use Chapter 20 in your textbook for the “before” and Chapter 24 for the “after.” (Refer to specific page numbers that I will provide.)// //2) You will also need to answer a key overall question that I have provided for each topic. (Many of these are from AP free response essays.)// //3) You must provide visuals (graphs, pictures, etc.) to illustrate the trends that you find. Be sure to include the web site that was the source of each of image.//

// **Requirements:** The length of your Keynote should not to exceed a title page plus six other slides. (Prior approval required if you want to exceed the limit of six slides.) The title page should include all of your names, the date, the topic and some visual image that effectively symbolizes your specific topic. Include your initials after each part of the report that you have researched and written. Since I will provide many of the images, you will not receive points for finding pictures, but only for analyzing them. (An exception would be for a graph or an unusual scanned document.)//

// **Hint:** **Do not start wandering aimlessly through cyberspace looking for images vaguely related to your topic. Start by reading the assigned pages for your topic and jotting down key terms and trends. Then get together and compare how the patterns shifted from the early to late industrial periods.**//

//PREINDUSTRIAL EARLY INDUSTRIAL LATE INDUSTRIAL// //(before 1750) (1800 to 1850) (1850-1910)//

// **Topics for Social History Keynote Presentation** //

// (All page numbers refer to McKay, //A History of Western Society, //9th edition)//

//**1) Marriage, Family, Illegitimate Births** Ch.20 653-658 and Ch.24 797-799//

Some topics: //age at marriage, community controls against premarital sex, the illegitimacy explosion, foundling hospitals, middle class vs. working class marriage patterns, romantic love vs. mercenary marriages//

Key question: //By 1900 European family life had “stabilized.” Explain what that meant and describe when and how it had been “destabilized” in an earlier time.//

//**2) Gender Roles** Ch.20 654-655 and Ch.24 793-794, 799-802//

Some topics: //18th century jobs for women, separate spheres, change in factory hiring practices, property rights, control of household, shift toward sentiment and emotions in marriage.//

Key question: //How did the Industrial Revolution change the roles of women, especially married women?//

//**3) Child-Rearing** Ch.20 658-663 and Ch.24 802-804//

Some topics: //attitudes toward breast-feeding, infanticide, foundling hospitals, Rousseau, class differences about wet-nursing, role of fathers and mothers in family, Freud’s theory//

Key question: //Between the 1850’s and 1920’s, what pattern developed in regard to the number of children in European families? How do you explain this pattern?//

//**4) Medicine** Ch.20 667-669 and Ch.24 781-783//

Some topics: //sort out the 4 types of medical practitioners in 18th century; status of women in medicine, bloodletting vs. purging vs. cauterizing, smallpox, Pasteurization, Koch’s germ theory, antiseptic principle, Edwin Chadwick as a Benthamite, cholera epidemic of 1846; rural vs. urban death rates in 1910//

Key question: //In what way did the popular miasmatic theory hold back the reforms that were so desperately needed in Europe’s cities around 1840?//

//**5) Leisure Activities** Ch.20 656, 675-676 and Ch.24 795-797//

Some topics: //blood sports vs. spectator sports, changes in drinking habits, music halls and vaudeville, role of religion in daily lives//

Key question: //How did carnival function as a means of social control to reinforce traditional community values in preindustrial Europe?// //Here is a link to Bruegel's famous painting of the Battle Between Lent and Carnival.//

//**6) Social Classes (and Diet)** Ch.20 664-666 and Ch.24 786-795, [skip// leisure //but include the topic of// diet//]//

Some topics: //Sort out the different social classes and sub-groups; include their typical patterns of food consumption. Labor aristocracy, trends in real wages, book’s definition of middle class,//

Key question:// Karl Marx argued that the industrial system would inevitably create two tightly organized social classes that would go to war with each other over the ownership of the factories. What does your textbook say about the Marxist view of class struggle?