1.1 Modern mass society

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Chapter 1

1.1 Modern mass society

At the end of this lesson...

- You can explain what characterizes modern mass society.

- You can describe what developments European industry experienced around 1900.

- You can name some important social and cultural changes around 1900. 

Planning

• What do you know already? (+- 5 min)
•  New information  (+- 20 min)
• Exercise (+-10 minutes)
• Homework (+- 10 minutes)

Name three characteristics of WW1

Wereldtentoonstelling in 1889

-Heineken wint het bier in Parijs een 'Diplome de Grand Prix' te midden van grootheden als Alexander Bell en Thomas Edison.

Gustave Eiffel verkent de tentoonstelling en bekijkt de inzendingen van de verschillende landen, die zich van hun beste kant laten zien.

-De Fransen laten speciaal voor deze bijeenkomst de Eiffeltoren bouwen.

-Engeland stuurt enorme stoomlocomotief.

-Edison toont trots zijn gloeilampen

-Gerad Heineken paar kratjes Heineken

Cars!

Aeroplanes!

Radios!

Movies!

All this leads to...

• Mass Media: Means of getting a message across to large groups of people.
• Modern mass society: A society in which a large proportion of the poplulation live in cities and people are easily able to contact one another thanks to good (motorized) transport systems and mass media. 

More luxury!

Electricity

• Caused the Second Industrial Revolution between 1860-1914 (steel, railways, electricity and chemicals)

• Important inventors who made electricity popular: Thomas Edison and Nicolai Tesla

• More and more household applications

What is the modern downside of these developments?

Social & cultural changes

• Urbanization
•  Women's emancipation
• Secularization 
• Abstract art

The phenomenon whereby people no longer go to church and often no longer believe in God.

Art that has no links to the visible real world.

Predictions from 1900 for 2000

Write down in your notebook:

- What the maker tried to predict

- What was this like in the 1900s?

- To what extent did this prediction come true?

Homework

1.1 exercise 1, 2, 4, 5, 6 on page 20 and 24.