Age Of Ideology

An ideology is a group of ideas (social, economic, culture, etc) about life and accepted as reality by the majority of people in a society. These set of ideas are used by different organizations in the society such as: school, and government, among other, to reinforce such ideology. In

Throughout American history there have been many periods of transformation. These transformations aren’t always apparent to them and many other times they have no idea it is happening until decades later. Regardless of what happened in different eras of history one thing always holds true, it made America who they are as a country. From the late 19th century into the early 20th century America went through one of these transformations with the birth of the progressive era. It left it’s imprint on American culture and will continue to for decades to come. The decades that worried America and its future were shortly after the Civil War. The political, social, and economic abuses were threatened.

Arjunpreet Grewal Sept. 12, 2016 Reading Sheet 4 for Hahn, Chapters 2-4 Summary: In Chapters 2-4 of Political Communication Rhetoric, Government, and Citizens by Dan F. Hahn, the author talks about the different ideologies and talks about definitions. According to Hahn, ideology is society’s belief structure. Ideology can be used in arguments and an example Hahn provided would be apples because of it’s complexity in regards to the variety and so on. One form of ideology is political ideology. Political ideology is society’s political belief structure. The two primary political ideologies in the United States are liberalism and conservatism. Liberalism is founded by two religious arguments and those two arguments are we are created free by God; no one lower can command us and one can make a good mistake as long as one choose between right and wrong. For conservatism, it’s founded by the rules that God provide for humans; no one lower can alter the rules and one can make a good mistake as long as it is in

World Wars, mass reform, limiting basic human rights, economic collapse, social migration, and more had shaped the United States throughout all of history. The most important of these changes, however, occurred during America’s progressive era. The Progressive era is defined as the time period of 1890 to 1920. Even though, progressive presidents were not in office during that entire time period, the ideals that they enacted and developed throughout the United States. The Progressive Era saw the expansion and contraction of political and economic freedoms through pure democracy. Socially, the new consumer society that had been adopted, coupled with the increase of immigration created a new societal trend in America. Economically, the changes in business like the removal of monopolies, as well as the rise of Fordism, created a competitive market that still holds today. Legislatively, President Roosevelt oversaw the creation of progressive democracy, the battle for women’s suffrage, and the creation of the American Federation of Labor and Industrial Workers of the World. The changes made during the Progressive Era presidencies made the United States of America a progressive country and changed the social, economic, and legislative landscape of the country. All of these ideals have changed the landscape of American history because of their unbiased ideals, which built a society in which the people could thrive and build a stronger America. The changes made during the Progressive

Group 1 Question 1 There are many ways in which the progressive era saw expansion and restriction of political and economic freedoms. In the progressive era, the economy grew enormously. But because America was changing from a rural society to more of an urban scene, industrialization occurred. As a result, businesses were booming, which jump started the economy. This was the beginning of the uprising of America’s economy during the progressive era. Big business essentially became in control of the economy, and this is where we see those restrictions. Because big businesses were in control of the economy, greed became an epidemic among businesses and corporations which resulted in unfair working conditions and unsteady shifts for the working class. It also created a larger gab between the working class and the business owners in terms of wealth. However, this did not last long as reform came. These victories helped shape the expansion of the economy of the progressive era, which included a minimum wage, predictable 8-hour work shifts, and better working conditions. The economy thrived in which more people sought jobs and retention rates in jobs rose due to the better working conditions.

The progressive era was a time period in America after reconstruction that took place from 1900 to 1920. The progressive era focused mainly on social and political reform, trying to fix America's economy by working towards equal conditions for individuals, stopping political corruption and increasing government intervention on social and economic issues. Progressivists were social activists and political reformers working to improve conditions and the treatment of the American people. They believed that the government could be a tool for change. Progressive reform started out as a social movement and later on took a more political stand. The progressive era was successful in the fight to reform the United States by improving industrialization, urbanization cities, and reforming America's social and gender classes.

During the 19th century many people began to think seriously about equality between each other, and the belief that a person should earn their place/position rather than inheriting it. These concepts led to the egalitarian ideology. Between the years 1829 and 1850 Americans developed the beliefs and ideals of an

ideological devices intended to deter the corruption and folly that might consume a free people, and instead promoterational and virtuous American citizens. Ronald Takaki expands upon this concept in his historical analysis, Iron Cages: Race and Culture in 19th-Century America, explaining that these constructs functioned

Tycoons of the Progressive Era did not have the safety and protection in mind of the workers who labored to make their garments. The workers were looked down on and had numerous rules and regulations that were unnecessary to the job, and none that were necessary. In 1911, a fire at the Triangle Waist Company broke out that claimed the lives of many women working on the upper floors of the Asch building. Because of this incident, the conditions that these immigrant women and children worked in were exposed, which in turn led to various reform groups coming together to fight for safer conditions in the workplace.

Progressives were groups of people that worked to reform social and political problems in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. They were primarily well-educated middle-class people who lived in cities. As mentioned in A People’s History of the United States, progressives were fighting off the socialism “intelligently and seek to remedy the abuses and conditions upon which it thrives” (Zinn 207). During progressive era, there was a huge economic gap between rich and poor (Class Notes). Few wealthy people had enormous power in their hand. Progressives believed that the wealthy shouldn’t have much power over the general public. Though several laws were passed during this era, progressives didn’t succeed in achieving what they wanted i.e. to “stabilize the capitalist system by repairing its worst defects, blunt the edge of the Socialist movement, restore some measure of class peace in a time of increasingly bitter clashes between capital and labor” (Zinn 207).

Individualism is a core value of American culture. It has been influencing all the fields of society, economics, politics and culture. It has played an immense and extensive effect to shape the character and mindset of the American nation. In the colonial period of 1607 - 1776, these Europeans had come to a new land to

During the 1800’s there were times when people came together in both religious (spiritual) and logical approach to what was going on around them. There were groups that believed in different forms of religious beliefs that varied in its values and leadership skills, as well as different groups that revolved around making the world a better place through a set way of life. Even though a religious group and a non-religious group have many things that set them apart from each other, the spiritual aspect of course, they also have many similarities. These vary from their cult like followings, ideas of perfect worlds that can be created, roles men and women played, as well as how they all stemmed off of the ideals of other people.

The perceived nature of humanity in regard to religion vastly changed during the 19th century. Early American religion held as one of its core tenets original sin and human depravity. Essentially this meant that early Americans believed humans to be inherently corrupt and amoral creatures. Calvinists believed that a moral government was needed to control human depravity. However, over time this belief changed. For example, Deists believed that men were capable of virtue and were endowed by God with inherent natural rights.

Progressivism shaped the United States in so many ways. The progressivism era lasted from 1890-1920, and began after the effect of industrialization and urbanization the era was intended to be a political movement reforming the United States political, social and economy. Progressivism began to emerge as the national movement when the era started to eliminate all of the negative aspects that would effect the country in a negative way. For example progressivism era began by getting rid of all the government corruptions that occurred during the urbanization era. Also began to end women’s suffrage and social welfare, prohibition, and civil liberties. The progressivism era began to create women suffrage associations so that women would have equal rights to voting and working. Direct primary was the reform that allowed people the power to choose who they wanted in office. The progressive public health initiatives and universal education really was an advantage to everyone especially the poor and foreigners. The goals for progressivism was to help make better working conditions so that it will be less poverty and better living conditions ending big businesses so that the American life would be improved. In order to insure that working conditions became better a workers compensation law was passed meaning companies had to buy insurance for their workers safety if anyone was to get injured on the job. One of

When thinking of a topic, point, theme, etc. the one that has stuck out to me when reading “Age of Propaganda”, is the topic “to be forewarned is to be forearmed”. The reason this stuck out to me is because I can relate to this, and it all seems so true. What “forwarned to be forearmed” means, is member of an audience can be made less receptive to a message if the audience is forwarned that an attempt of persuasion is going to be made. This is saying that, if someone is told that they are going to be persuaded by someone before it actually happens, then they are going to be less persuaded than if they weren't “forewarned”. It is important because it explains how media persuasion influences different types of age groups. If people actually