1. Discuss Exposition Reading “In 1900 Europeans had good reason to feel pleased with the recent past and confident about the future” Discuss and give specific examples from the reading to illustrate this point.

2. Modern Europe: The Birth of Mass Society (Assignment #1)

3. Positivism Faith in science – faith in progress Society runs on “order and progress”: "Love as a principle and order as the basis; progress as the goal" Flag of Brazil – inspired by Positivist Auguste Comte

4. Industry and Growth of Cities

5. Class distribution What did the emergence of an industrial society mean for rich poor and those in between? THE MIDDLE CLASSES

6. Class Distribution: the working classes

7. Changes in Family Life/Gender Roles 1859 1910 How did working class and middle class families change as they coped with the challenges and opportunities of the developing urban civilization?

8. Politics for the masses

9. Women and the right to vote https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qTPquhaRxUw

10. Science Second industrial revolution Positivism – All things knowable need to be provable.

11. Art