Selected Social and Intellectual Aspects
of the Modern North
American Situation
Gary E. Schnittjer
Copyright © 1995, 2008
The purpose of these materials is to gain some perspective
on the numerous, dynamic, and interrelated factors that bear on North American
society. The historical events and terms of social interpretation are imprecise
and overlapping. The lines divide, broadly speaking, political;
oppressive-social, terror; religious, intellectual, art; economic-social; and
cultural-social.
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Monarchy, aristocracy
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Democracy
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Social leveling; Civil
Rights
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colonial outlook
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American Revolution 1776,
French Revolution 1789,
Napoleon 1804
Civil War 1865
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Great European War 1914
Bolshevik Revolution 1917
World War II 1945
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Korean War 1950
Vietnam 1965-75
Desert Storm 1992
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Afghanistan 2001-, Iraq
2003-
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Slavery
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Colonization
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Hitler’s Germany
Hiroshima, Nagasaki
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Iron Curtain, the Cold War
(Berlin divided, 1945-1989)
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Rwanda; The Twin
Towers; Sudan
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Reformation
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Revival, personal
conversion
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Denominations;
Modernist-Fundamentalist controversy
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Denominational decline
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Local, Personal
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Renaissance
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Enlightenment
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Modern
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(postmodern)
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(Late) Modern
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Theocentric
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Deistic
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Anthropocentric, Agnostic
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Ethnocentric, Atheistic
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Egocentric
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Classic
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Realism, Romanticist
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Surrealistic,
Impressionistic,
Abstract
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Tradition, Revelation
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Reason, Rational
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Value
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Agrarian
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Industrial
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(Great Depression 1930-33)
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Technological
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Copernicus
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Newtonian
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Quantum
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Nuclear
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Relative
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Tribal-Rural
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Town
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City
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Suburbia, adolescence
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Global Village
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Classic high culture
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Big band
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Radio broadcast popular
music
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Rock
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Personal mp3 players
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Letters, old-time travel
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Telegraph, Telephone,
Electric light, Rail travel
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Automobiles,
Commercial airlines
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Space travel; Interstate
highway system
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personal mobile phones, email,
IM, texting; GPS navigation, and so on
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Oral, Hand-made visual media
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Print media, Live theater
(circus, tent revivalists, and other traveling shows)
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Moving pictures,
synchronized sound added
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Broadcast media, Household
media players; Rising celebrity of televised news casting and professional
sports
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Digital and computer media;
Internet; Video games; Reality television
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Massive European
immigration late 19th early 20th cent
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Prohibition; Lost
Generation; Jazz Age; Café Society; Scopes Monkey Trial; Unions
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Disneyland
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Facebook
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Also, education changed dramatically. Public education began
in Europe not too long after the rise of the
printing press and widely available printed materials. At the beginning of the
twentieth century about five percent of the population attended college,
largely from the upscale classes; by the end of the twentieth century a
majority of Americans attended college.
Copyright © 1995, 2008
ScriptureWorkshop.com
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