Alternative Visions
Four kinds of critic
- A number of artists and critics, including agrarians, utopians, socialists, and advocates of the Social Gospel, championed alternative visions for the economy and U.S. society.
- Four groups named, and they are not variations on one position — agrarian, utopian, socialist and Social Gospel differ fundamentally.
- Alternative visions is the key phrase: these are proposals for a different arrangement, not merely complaints.
Select all four critic groups the CED names.
They are not variations on one position.
What each proposed
- Agrarians measured the economy against the independent farm — 6.2's falling prices are their evidence.
- Socialists proposed a different ownership of production; utopians proposed leaving to build a model community.
- Social Gospel advocates applied religious duty to industrial conditions — the same premise as the Gospel of Wealth, aimed downward rather than outward.
'Alternative visions' means these movements...
The CED chose the stronger word.
Women's reform, three methods
- Many women sought greater equality with men, often joining voluntary organisations, going to college, and promoting social and political reform.
- Three methods, and the second — going to college — connects to 6.10's increased access to educational institutions.
- So the middle class the corporation created supplied the reformers who criticised the order it belonged to.
Select all three methods women used, per the CED.
The second connects to 6.10's educational access.
"Alternative visions" is a stronger word than "criticism". A critic who wants better wages accepts the system; agrarians, utopians, socialists and Social Gospel advocates proposed a different arrangement — so describe them by what they proposed, not only by what they opposed.
Which alternative vision?
Sort each proposal to the group that made it.
The middle class the corporation created also supplied...
Educational access made both possible.
Why 'alternative' is the right word
- A critic who wants better wages accepts the system; a critic with an alternative vision does not.
- The CED chose the stronger word, which means these movements should be described by what they proposed, not only what they opposed.
- That is the difference between 6.7's unions and 6.11's critics, and both belong in an account of the Gilded Age.
For each movement give the diagnosis, the proposal, and the ____.
Three details, all supplied by the CED.
How reform movements responded
- The objective is how different reform movements responded to the rise of industrial capitalism in the Gilded Age.
- Different is doing work: name at least two movements with genuinely different diagnoses.
- For each, give the diagnosis, the proposal, and the method — three details, and the CED supplies all of them.
Ask a movement what it wants and you learn whether it is bargaining or replacing. A raise is a bargain; a different owner of the mill is a replacement. Both are reform, and they are not the same kind of thing.
A number of artists and critics, including agrarians, utopians, socialists, and advocates of the Social Gospel, championed alternative visions for the economy and U.S. society, and many women sought greater equality with men, often joining voluntary organisations, going to college, and promoting social and political reform. The four critic groups differ fundamentally, and alternative visions means they proposed a different arrangement rather than better terms within the existing one.