Modern American Society

The absolute, moralistic ideals of Victorian-American culture in collision with the scientific principles of objectivity, empiricism, and relativism. Topics include: Darwin's challenge to religious thought, changes in approaches to health and medicine and to the doctrines and practice of the law, the rise of the social sciences and the modern university, the shift from patriarchal to companionate marriages, the rise of a meritocracy and the promise of racial and sexual equality. Drachman