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CF 3333 Clash of Cultures

STUDENT-PREPARED QUESTIONS FOR THE FINAL EXAMINATION: SUMMER 2009

Student prepared Questions for CF 3333 Final Examination Summer 2009

Question 1

Show the life span of different economic theories from conception through consequence in and around the Industrial Revolution 

How have these political thinkers criticized the socio-economic and political structures of Medieval Europe? And how has Capitalism and the Industrial revolution transformed/effected major institutional domains worldwide?

Question 1

Choose two institutional domains (economic, social, political, religious) and discuss the impact made by capitalism and industrialization, emphasizing the changes from 1450-1850. [note: use 1700 as a starting point instead of 1450]

Question 1

 “The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.”

Winston Churchill

 In light of this quotation, analyze the impacts of capitalism and industrialization, paying particular attention to antipodes (e.g., feudalism and capitalism, aristocracy and democracy, slavery and freedom, ‘East’ and ‘West,’ etc.).

 Question 1 or 2

 Quote from Major Barbara:

 Cusins: Call you poverty a crime?

Undershaft: The worst of crimes. All the other crimes are virtues beside it: all the other dishonors are chivalry itself by comparison. Poverty blights whole cities; spreads horrible pestilences; strikes dead the very souls of all who come within sight, sound or smell of it. What you call crime is nothing: a murder here and a theft there, a blow now and a curse then: what do they matter? they are only the accidents and illnesses of life: there are not fifty genuine professional criminals in London. But there are millions of poor people, abject people, dirty people, ill fed, ill clothed people. They poison us morally and physically: they kill the happiness of society: they force us to do away with our own liberties and to organize unnatural cruelties for fear they should rise against us and drag us down into their abyss. Only fools fear crime: we all fear poverty.

As poverty here is labeled as a "crime," explain the meaning of said "crime" and how this might affect both the social and economic domains of Europe as it moves from an industrial to capitalist nation.

Question 2

1. Explain how the movie “Major Barbara” shows the lifestyle of England in the 19th c.  Discuss ideas of capitalism, patriarchy, and class systems.

2. Explain how the movie Hard Times depicts 19th c. European institutions. Discuss concepts such as class systems, patriarchy, and capitalism.

3. Discuss how feminism is represented in the two films. What effect did the Industrial Revolution have in both these movies? Use specific examples: i.e. how does the relationship between Bounderby and his employees describe the economic power structure in 19th c. Europe? Compare and contrast the ideas of economic institutions in the films.

Question 2

Compare and contrast Dickens' and Shaw's outlooks on two institutions of the nineteenth century. Select two of the four insititutions and explain the impact of capitalization on the lowest class.