Couldnt tell cultural and economics apart. Use religion in their economic debates
No cultural change and the market can take hold.
Prices on each of road wont be the same because culture can stop market
b) The biggest issues of "how to live?"
wage-labor instead of guilds
task-work has to go
alcohol has to go
festival and violence have to go
c) Evangelical Christians excelled at new market life. With competition, they win. More efficient.
3) Most issues of "reform" have to do with need for self-control
a) Even now, this is the big class marker in American life.
b) “Self-control” issues for middle-class life. Family life will replace patriarchy. Get men under control
Even now, gender is the thing to look for to see traditional/modern battles
c) The conversion process runs through females
d) Nuclear family as center of society
Children no longer "little adults"
Teach them self control too
e) Domesticity & Separate Spheres
Birth of female space
“Moral leaders”
leads into reform associations
leads into first entry into public sphere
4) Institutional Life to instill proper values. Often female-led!
Schools
Instill self-control and Americanize
Why "school prayer issue" even now in many parts of country
Prisons
The rise of the “penitentiary”
“Rehabilitation” is what confinement is for
Introduce Foucault
5) Give credit: Furthest wing of evangelical reform, abolition
a) W.L.G and “The Liberator”-1831
very SMALL
always fractured
b) Mob action constantly against
c) Jackson & the post office/gag rule (overturned 1844)
6) What is Victorianism?
a) Capitalist & Religious
b) Unlike secular liberals later
c) Stays strong in America