Green Revolution

(noun)

Green Revolution refers to a series of research, development, and technology transfer initiatives, occurring between the 1940s and the late 1970s, that increased agriculture production around the world, beginning most markedly in the late 1960s

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Examples of Green Revolution in the following topics:

  • Problems in Forecasting Population Growth

    • The Green Revolution is an example of rapidly changing technology that lowered worldwide death rates, thus throwing off estimates of population change.
    • For example, in the mid-20th century, the Green Revolution in agriculture dramatically increased available food by spreading farming technology like fertilizer and increasing efficiency in agriculture.
    • The Green Revolution was a period of rapid technological innovation in agricultural, which made food resources more widely available than expected and thus reduced the global mortality rate.

  • Examples of Social Movements

  • Industrial Societies: The Birth of the Machine

    • During the Industrial Revolution (roughly 1750 to 1850) changes in technology had a profound effect on social and economic conditions.
    • Examples of the technological innovation of the Industrial Revolution include the invention of steam and coal engines.
    • The period of time covered by the Industrial Revolution varies with different historians.
    • Great Britain provided the legal and cultural foundations that enabled entrepreneurs to pioneer the Industrial Revolution.
    • Analyze the shift from manual to machine based labor during the First and Second Industrial Revolutions

  • Sexual Behavior Since Kinsey

    • The Kinsey Report helped spark the sexual revolution, in which social regulations regarding sexual activity were loosened.
    • While other sexualities were still stigmatized in most post-Kinsey environments, the sexual revolution was marked by popular acceptance of premarital sex.
    • Kinsey's 1950s study of sexuality contributed to the sexual revolution of the 1960s in two ways.
    • Another scientific product had a profound impact on the development of the sexual revolution: the development of oral contraception.
    • Summarize the impact of the Kinsey Report and the sexual revolution of the 1960s on American sexuality

  • Monarchies and Liberal Democracies

    • Throughout history, monarchies have been abolished, either through revolutions, legislative reforms, coups d'état or wars.
    • The twentieth century saw a major escalation of this process, with many monarchies violently overthrown by revolution or war, or abolished as part of the process of decolonization.
    • Near the end of the 18th century, these ideas inspired the American and French Revolutions, the latter giving birth to the ideology of liberalism, and instituting forms of government that attempted to apply the principles of the Enlightenment philosophers into practice.
    • Reforms and revolutions helped move most European countries towards liberal democracy.

  • Capitalism, Modernization, and Industrialization

    • Sociologists Weber, Marx and Durkheim envisioned different impacts the Industrial Revolution would have on both the individual and society.
    • Three early sociologists, Max Weber, Karl Marx, and Emile Durkheim, envisioned different outcomes of the Industrial Revolution on both the individual and society and described these effects in their work.
    • Max Weber was particularly concerned about the rationalization of society due to the Industrial Revolution and how this change would affect humanity's agency and happiness.
    • Karl Marx took a different perspective on the Industrial Revolution.
    • Compare the similarities and differences between Weber's Rationalization, Marx's Alienation and Durkheim's Solidarity In relation to the Industrial Revolution

  • Democratic Socialism

    • Specifically, it is a term used to distinguish between socialists who favor a grassroots-level, spontaneous revolution (referred to as gradualism) from those socialists who favor Leninism (organized revolution instigated and directed by an overarching vanguard party that operates on the basis of democratic centralism).
    • Leninism is based on the philosophy of Vladimir Lenin, who advocated organized revolution led by a vanguard party.

  • The Spread of Liberal Democracy

    • Near the end of the 18th century, these ideas inspired the American Revolution and the French Revolution, the pair of which gave birth to the ideology of liberalism and instituted forms of government that attempted to apply the principles of Enlightenment philosophy in practice.
    • Reforms and revolutions helped move most European countries towards liberal democracy.

  • Industrial Work

    • In the 18th and 19th centuries, the Industrial Revolution dramatically changed labor practices.
    • Before the Industrial Revolution, most production took place in homes or in small workshops.
    • After the Industrial Revolution, production increasingly took place in factories, many of which were situated together in industrial districts.
    • Discuss the impact of the Industrial Revolution on workers and the shift from small scale to large scale workforces

  • History

    • The study of human populations has its roots, like sociology generally, in the societal changes that accompanied both the scientific and industrial revolutions.