Chapter 22 HY 102
Cruel sports such as cockfighting declined, while commercialized spectator sports became popular
How did the culture of sports change in the late nineteenth century?
Cities could expand as even people of modest means could travel quickly and cheaply to new, improved, and less congested housing
How did the electric streetcar affect the urban environment?
Married couples increasingly developed stronger emotional ties and based marriage decisions on sentiment and sexual attraction
How did the nature of marriage change by the late nineteenth century?
rootlessness
In his pioneering work of sociology, Suicide (1897), Emile Durkheim concluded that ever-higher suicide rates were caused by widespread feelings of
Excrement from outhouses could be carried off by water through sewers at low cost
What was a central component of the improvements in sanitation in the nineteenth century?
Marriage based on romantic love and middle-class family values
What was companionate marriage?
Having servants
What was the clearest sign that a family was middle class?
It was a stage of life for many poor young women, which they moved beyond as they established their own homes and families
Which of the following describes late-nineteenth-century prostitution?
They gave frequent, large dinner parties as their favored social activity
Why did middle-class families spend considerable portions of their income on food?
all life had gradually evolved from a common ancestral origin
After years of scientific investigation and reflection, Charles Darwin concluded that
