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The overall European population was growing at
the end of the nineteenth century. but
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the birthrate
was falling in almost every country.
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In the late nineteenth century,
politicians and social theorists began to worry about a marked decline in
fertility, which they blamed on all of the following except
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late
marriages among the working class.
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In the late nineteenth century, marriage
reformers proposed
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placing marital finances in equal control of men and women, legalizing
divorce, and providing government
subsidies for mothers.
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The term modern
was often applied to
this period because it
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captures the accelerated pace of life, urbanization, mass politics, and
artistic responses to all of these
changes.
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Despite rapid modernization, old
ways and customs still survived in eastern Europe, as exemplified by the Balkan retention of the
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zadruga.
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In Great Britain, theorist Havelock
Ellis (1859-1939) emerged as a practitioner of the new field of
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sexology.
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Max Nordau argued that
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nervous
complaints and a bizarre art world were symptoms of cultural degeneration.
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Sigmund Freud's theory of the human psyche
alarmed many because it stated that
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humans were
motivated by irrational drives, not only by logical thought.
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The controversial approach of psychohistory uses
the approach of Freud to
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show how childhood traumas caused historical figures to make the
decisions they did.
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One way Max Weber differed from positivists was
that he asserted that
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a leader who acted on intuition might be better able to deal with a
crisis than laws or bureaucracies based
on rational or scientific approaches.
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The work of some late-nineteenth-century
philosophers known as pragmatists and relativists reflected a change in Western
perceptions of the world and argued that
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human understanding was contingent upon the complex conditions of daily
existence, and therefore no theory or
standard was ever definitive.
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Scientists Antoine Becquerel (1852-1908), Marie
Curie (1867-1934), and Max Planck (1858-1947) all argued that
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matter was not
solid but, rather, made up of mutable atoms, themselves made up of subatomic
particles moving about a core.
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Which of the following
was not a scientific innovation during this period?
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Watson and
Crick's discovery of DNA
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A number of groups critical of growing
nationalism sprang up in central and eastern Europe
in the attempt to secure freedom of expression for
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A) artists, particularly the avant-garde.
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How did fauvism, cubism,
and expressionism differ significantly from art nouveau?
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Fauvism, cubism, and expressionism stressed the
unpleasant aspects of industrial society, while art nouveau emphasized beauty
that could help people escape from it.
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