Great Society

Examples of Great Society in the following topics:

• Assessing the Great Society

  • While poverty rates declined during the Great Society initiative, critics argue the program turned the U.S. into a welfare state.
  • Since the launch of the Great Society and the War on Poverty, there has been a contentious debate over its impact.
  • The Great Society remains controversial, particularly among conservatives.
  • Observers debate the impact of the Great Society and War on Poverty on poverty rates and the economy.
  • Assess the impact of the Great Society and the War on Poverty

• The Great Society

  • The Great Society was a series of domestic programs promoted by President Lyndon B.
  • The Great Society was a set of domestic programs promoted by President Lyndon B.
  • The Great Society also created programs to benefit the arts.
  • The Great Society also first established public television.
  • The Great Society also included policies related to labor.

• Higher Education

  • President Johnson's Great Society made improvements to elementary, secondary, and higher education through a series of acts.
  • The most important educational component of Johnson's Great Society was the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965, designed by Commissioner of Education Francis Keppel.

• Literature

  • American literature during the 1920s stressed themes concerning need for self-definition and the changing role of women in society.
  • Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby is often described as the epitome of the "Jazz Age" in American literature.
  • The modernist period also brought changes to the portrayal of gender roles, and especially to women's roles in society.
  • The Great Gatsby, for example, deals with such topics as gender interaction in a mundane society.
  • Scott Fitzgerald, a contributor to the Saturday Evening Post, created a portrait of his generation in The Great Gatsby.

• The Second Great Awakening

  • The Second Great Awakening began to decline by 1870.
  • The Second Great Awakening stimulated the establishment of many reform movements designed to remedy the evils of society before the Second Coming of Jesus Christ.
  • Congregationalists set up missionary societies to evangelize the western territory of the Northern Tier.
  • Publication and education societies promoted Christian education; most notable among them was the American Bible Society, founded in 1816.
  • Women made up a large part of these voluntary societies.

• The Age of Reforms

  • The Second Great Awakening spurred waves of social change and reform.
  • The Second Great Awakening was a Protestant revival movement during the early 19th century in the United States.
  • The Second Great Awakening stimulated the establishment of many reform movements designed to remedy the evils of society before the anticipated Second Coming of Jesus Christ.
  • Publication and education societies promoted Christian education; most notable among them was the American Bible Society, founded in 1816.
  • Women made up a large part of these voluntary societies.

• Conflict Theory

  • Society is made up of individuals competing for limited resources (e.g., money, leisure, sexual partners, etc.).
  • This is contrasted with the conflict approach, which argues that society is constantly in conflict over resources.
  • A heuristic device to help you think about society from a conflict perspective is to ask, "Who benefits from this element of society?
  • While societies are in a constant state of change, much of the change is minor.
  • Many of the broader elements of societies remain remarkably stable over time, indicating the structural-functional perspective has a great deal of merit.As noted above, sociological theory is often complementary.

• Dominant Perspectives

  • Stratification and inequalities are inevitable and beneficial to society.
  • Doctors should be rewarded highly, because great training is required to do their job.
  • Are basketball players more essential to society than teachers?
  • Do his earnings demonstrate his contribution to society?
  • Societies could be redesigned so that they are based on cooperation.

• The Division of Labor

  • In his dissertation, Durkheim described how societies maintained social order based on two very different forms of solidarity (mechanical and organic), and analyzed the transition from more "primitive" societies to advanced industrial societies.
  • In an advanced, industrial, capitalist society, the complex division of labor means that people are allocated in society according to merit and rewarded accordingly; social inequality reflects natural inequality.
  • Durkheim argued that in this type of society moral regulation was needed to maintain order (or organic solidarity).
  • However, once society has reached the "advanced" stage, it becomes much stronger and is done developing.
  • It is widely accepted that the division of labor is to a great extent inevitable, simply because no one can perform all tasks at once.

• The Popularization of Science

  • After 1700, a big number of official academies and societies were founded in Europe and by 1789 there were over seventy official scientific societies.
  • Membership in academies and societies was therefore highly selective.
  • A great number of the entries were dedicated to describing the sciences and crafts in detail.
  • Her personal relationship with Empress Catherine the Great allowed her to obtain the position, which marked in history the first appointment of a woman to the directorship of a scientific academy.
  • Cover of the first volume of Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, 1665-1666, the Royal Society of London.