HIS242H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Camille Pissarro, Wassily Kandinsky, Auguste Comte
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Science, culture & the challenges of the irrational. Societal changes in the late 19th century: technological advancements. There were many new advancements in large cities such as the telephone and the car: industrialization; mechanized equipment, population growth; urbanization. B/w 1870-1940, the population of europe increased by half (290 mill -> 435 mill) Cities like warsaw, istanbul, berlin grew exponentially. The new large cities provided many new opportunities for women as they had many more new opportunities for work. As the population grew, many cities grew as well because those people needed places to live. There were many new advancements in the big cities to accommodate for the great increase in the population: mass access to transportation and communication. He was credited with the title doctor of positivism . He believed that scienti c discovery had passed through 3 stages of development: He concluded that what he called the science of society could be the same.
