Conclusion

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Heather A. Haveman
Keyword(s):  
Population Growth ◽  
Print Culture ◽  
Social Reform ◽  
Medical Schools ◽  
Copyright Law ◽  
Reform Movements ◽  
Social Reform Movements ◽  
Gradual Development ◽  
American Society ◽  
Eighteenth And Nineteenth Centuries

This concluding chapter summarizes that the book has documented the evolution of American magazines from a few, fragile, questionable undertakings to more than a thousand robust, highly legitimate elements of print culture. Between 1741 and 1860, magazines underwent a profound transformation that were made possible by a series of changes in American society, including population growth and urbanization, advances in publishing technologies, the gradual development of copyright law, the modernization of social reform movements, and the rise of protoscientific agriculture. The chapter discusses the implications of the book's findings for understanding modernity and community, for other aspects of American society such as the establishment of various medical schools, and for those who study media in the contemporary era. It concludes by reiterating the important role played by magazines in fostering the pluralistic integration that distinguished American society from European ones in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.

Social Reform

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Heather A. Haveman
Keyword(s):  
Social Reform ◽  
Reform Movements ◽  
Social Reform Movements ◽  
Formal Organizations ◽  
History Of ◽  
Eighteenth And Nineteenth Centuries ◽  
The Many ◽  
The Relationship

This chapter examines the relationship between magazines and social reform movements in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. In particular, it looks at the “benevolent empire,” an interorganizational field that consisted of a large number of voluntary social reform associations, the religious structures that supported them, and the magazines that both supported organized reform efforts and were supported by them. The chapter first reviews the history of reform movements, with emphasis on the links among successive movements and the formal organizations that supported them. It then considers the religious roots of social reform and the specialized magazines launched by reform leaders to broadcast their views and show. It also discusses how often the many different social reform movements were covered across all magazine genres before concluding with an analysis of the antislavery movement and its interaction with both religion and magazines.

Introduction

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Heather A. Haveman
Keyword(s):  
Population Growth ◽  
Original Data ◽  
Religious Communities ◽  
Educational Institutions ◽  
Reform Movements ◽  
Rapid Population Growth ◽  
Scientific Agriculture ◽  
Social Reform Movements ◽  
Key Features ◽  
American Society

This book explores the role that magazines played in the modernization of America, and particularly in the development of translocal communities, during the period 1741–1860. Drawing on original data obtained from 5,362 magazines published during this period, the book analyzes how the growing number and variety of magazines promoted and directed modern community building in America. It investigates the ways that magazines affected and were affected by key features of American society, including rapid population growth and urbanization; breakthroughs in printing and papermaking technologies; the rise of religious communities and social reform movements; the growth of educational institutions; and the emergence of scientific agriculture. This introduction reviews scholarship on modernization and community and explains how these concepts apply to America during the period. It also provides an overview of the chapters that follow.

scholarly journals Social Movements that Led to Social Transformation in Jammu and Kashmir During the British Rule

2021 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 164-171
Author(s):  
Dr. Nasir Ahmad Ganaie
Keyword(s):  
Social Movements ◽  
Social Transformation ◽  
Social Reform ◽  
Reform Movements ◽  
Jammu And Kashmir ◽  
Western Education ◽  
British Rule ◽  
Social Reform Movements ◽  
Hindu Community

The article tries to examine and study the role of some of the Hindu social reform movements that came up during the British rule to transform, modernize, and uplift society by imparting modern or western education. The article studies their role in eradicating social evils like child re-marriage, dowry and sati among the Hindu community in Jammu and Kashmir. In addition to these elements, it also tries to enlighten the role of various Hindu reform movements in imparting education among all sections of society without any discrimination.

Beyond Malthusianism: Demography and Technology in John Stuart Mill's Stationary State

Utilitas ◽  
1991 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 53-67 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert Kurfirst
Keyword(s):  
Economic Growth ◽  
Social Reform ◽  
Social Progress ◽  
Population Increase ◽  
Reform Movements ◽  
Automatic Instrument ◽  
Moral Improvement ◽  
The Poor ◽  
Social Reform Movements ◽  
Per Capita

In his evaluation of the major social reform movements of his era, Mill chastised well-meaning reformers for their reluctance to elevate Malthusianism to a position of prominence in their efforts. He was convinced that the key to the material, mental, and moral improvement of the poor and the workers lay in a reduction of their physical numbers and in the behavioural modifications entailed by such a diminution, whereas most other reformers looked elsewhere for solutions. A favourite assumption about the proper means for effecting social reform was that economic growth served as an effective and almost automatic instrument for improving society. Then, as now, an unquestioned faith in the capacity of a progressive economy to stimulate gains in per capita income for the lower classes set the terms for the discussion.1 However, by suggesting that broader and more intensive economic development without a corresponding reduction in the rate of population increase would not generate material gains for those living in indigence, let alone the broader socio-cultural progress that was to have followed closely upon its heels, Mill casts aspersions upon the ‘false ideal’ of economic growth which informed many grand programmes for social progress.

Reluctant Reformers: The Impact of Racism on American Social Reform Movements

1975 ◽  
Vol 44 (1) ◽  
pp. 100
Author(s):  
John R. Wennersten ◽  
Robert Allen ◽  
Pamela P. Allen
Keyword(s):  
Social Reform ◽  
Reform Movements ◽  
Social Reform Movements ◽  
The Impact

scholarly journals „Geistige Orientierung“ der Bertelsmann-Stiftung

2001 ◽  
Vol 31 (122) ◽  
pp. 123-143 ◽  
Author(s):  
Oliver Schöller
Keyword(s):  
Social Reform ◽  
Entire Range ◽  
World Wide ◽  
Reform Movements ◽  
Social Character ◽  
Media Companies ◽  
The Social ◽  
Social Reform Movements ◽  
The World

It will be presented the German Bertelsmann-Foundation which belongs to one of the world-wide biggest media companies. The enterprise-foundation exerts an important influence on several social reform movements in Germany. Doing this, the Bertelsmann-Foundation succeeds in integrating associations, parties and personalities representing nearly the entire range of society. This raises the question, weather the foundation is a political neutral institution as it claims to be. By having a critical look at the foundation-project „intellectual orientation“ the social character of production of ideas by the Bertelsmann-Foundation will be demonstrated. It can be shown, the role of the Bertelsmann-Foundation is that of a mediator, transforming different interests into a new kind of social corporatism.

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