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vocab chp 23-24
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01/23/2006

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antiseptic principle
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devloped by english surgeon joseph lister it was the idea that a chemcial disinfectant applied toa wound dressing would destory aerial bacteria
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benthamite
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follower of the radical philsopher jeremy benthamite who taught taht public problems should be dealt with on a rational scientific basis and accordign to the greatest good for the greatest number
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defense mechanisms
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freud's postulation that much of human behavior is motivated by unconscious emotional needs whose nature and origins are kept from conscious awareness by various mental devices
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evolution
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the idea pplied by thinkers in many fields that stresses gradual change and continuous adjustment
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germ theory
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idea contrary to miasmatic theory that disease was spread through filth and not caused by it
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illegitimacy explosion
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period between 1750 and 1850 marked by a high number of illegitimate births by the 1840's as many as one birth in 3 was occuring outside of wedlock in mnay larege cities
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labor aristocracy
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highly ski8lled workers who made up 15 percent of the working classes at the turn of the 20th century
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miasmatic theory
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belifet aht people contract disease when they breathe the bad odors of decay and putrefying excrement
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organic chemistry
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study of compounds of carbon
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pasteurization
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porcess devloped by louis pasteur that suppressed the activity of living organisms in a beverage by heating it
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positivist method
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auguste compte's discipline of sociology which postulated that each branch of our knowlege passes successively through 3 diff theoretical conditions
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realism
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literary movement which stressed that literature should decipt life exactly as it was
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separtae spheres
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rigid gender division of labor with the wife as motherand homemaker and the husband as wage earner
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social darwinists
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group of thinkers popular with upper middle class who saw the human race as driven forward to ever greater specialization adn progress by the unending economic struggle which would dtermine the survival of the fittest
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thermodynamics
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branch fo physics built on newtons laws of mechanice tha tinvetsigated the relationship btw heat and mechanical energy
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battle of peterloo
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protest that took place at saint peter;s feields in manchester that was broken up by armed cavalry in reaction to the revision of the corn laws
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bourgeoisise
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middle class
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carlsbad decrees
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issued in 1819 these decrees reuired the 38 german member states to root out subverise idea in their universities and newspapers
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congress of vienna
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meeting of russia prussia austria and great britain to fashion a peace settlement having defeated france
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corn laws
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laws revised in 1815 that prohibited the importation of forgein grain trade unless the price at home rose to imporbably levels
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doers
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leading scientists engineers and industrialist
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dual revolution
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term taht historian eric hobsbawn used for economic and political changes that tended to fuse reinforcing each other
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great famine
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result of 4 yr of crop failure in ireland
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great famine
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result of 4 yr of crop failure in ireland
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holy alliance
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an alliance formed by austria russia and prussia in sept of 1815 that beacme a symbol of the repression of liberal nd revolutionary movement all over europe
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laissez faire
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econimc liberalism taht believes in unrestricted private enterpirse and no government interference in economy
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liberalism
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principle idea of which equality and liberty demand representative governent and equilty before the law as awell as indiviudal freedoms such as freedom of preess and speech
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nationlism
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principle idea that each ppl had its own genious and its own cultrual unity
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parasites
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court the aristocracy lawyers and church men
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proletariat
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modern working class
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romanticism
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movement that was reovluting agaisnt classicism and the englightenment it was characterized by a beliefe in eomtional excuberance unrestrained imagination and spontaneity in both art and personal life
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socialism
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backlash agaisnt the emergence of indiviluaism and gramentation of society it wa sa move towards cooperation and sense of community the key ideas were panning greater economic equality aand state regulation of property
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sturm und drang
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storm and stress
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