La révolution industrielle
Analysez la révolution industrielle : innovations, usines, capitalisme, urbanisation, classes sociales et mutations économiques majeures.
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Le marché d’un produit et ses limites
Comprenez le marché d’un produit et ses limites : offre, demande, prix, concurrence, externalités, asymétries et interventions publiques.
Les politiques sociales
Analysez les politiques sociales : protection, redistribution, santé, retraites, chômage, exclusion et enjeux de solidarité nationale.
Les politiques économiques
Comprenez les politiques économiques : objectifs, instruments, croissance, inflation, emploi, budget, monnaie et arbitrages publics.
Le budget de l’Etat et la fiscalité
Analysez le budget de l’État et la fiscalité : recettes, dépenses, déficit, dette publique, impôts, redistribution et choix politiques.
Le contrôle social
Le système de valeurs est lié aux normes, indispensables au bon fonctionnement de la société. L’écart entre valeurs et normes nécessite un contrôle social.
Les phénomènes culturels
Culture dominante: modèle culturel qui s’impose à l’ensemble d’une société. Contre-culture: rejet du système de valeurs de la culture dominante
Individus et groupes sociaux : la stratification sociale
Étudiez individus, groupes sociaux et stratification : classes, statuts, hiérarchies, inégalités, mobilité et rapports sociaux.
La socialisation : l’homme en tant qu’être social
Nous déterminons notre être par les relations avec les autres, c’est le résultat d’une nature biologique (l’inné) et d’un contexte social (l’acquis).
Le financement de l’économie
La Banque de France effectue la compensation, ré-escompte les effets de commerce, intervient sur le marché monétaire, assure la réglementation bancaire.
La monnaie
Comprenez la monnaie : fonctions, création monétaire, banques, banque centrale, inflation, confiance et rôle dans les échanges économiques.
Le circuit économique
Comprenez le circuit économique : ménages, entreprises, État, banques, flux réels et monétaires, revenus, dépenses et production.
Les agents économiques
Identifiez les agents économiques : ménages, entreprises, administrations, banques, reste du monde, fonctions et relations économiques.
Inequalities in Britain today
In its 1997 General Election Manifesto, New Labour struck a chord among electors after 18 years of Conservative Government.
The Thatcher Years : the individual and society
Explore the Margaret Thatcher years through individualism, society, market reform, class conflict, state power, and Britain’s political transformation.
Inequality and Gender
Explore gender inequality in Britain, from Victorian separate spheres and legal reforms to suffrage, employment, feminism, and equal pay debates.
Inequality and Race
Explore race inequality in Britain, from Notting Hill and immigration laws to Race Relations Acts, Enoch Powell, Brixton, and the Scarman Report.
The Affluent Society : poverty rediscovered?
Post-war Britain is characterised by Butskellism, a hybrid word formed from the Conservative (Butler) and Labour (Gaitskell) Chancellors of the Exchequer.
The Welfare State: an end to poverty and inequality ?
Wartime hardships, national solidarity and the acceptance of an increased role for the State led to the need for durable change in social and health policies.
The Beveridge Report: a Revolution?
It had been thought William Beveridge would just tidy up the existing schemes but in fact, he came up with a brand-new scheme.
More electoral inequalities : the Road to Female Suffrage
Explore the road to female suffrage in Britain, from Victorian gender roles and legal reforms to suffragists, the WSPU, and voting rights.
Ante Bellum, Inter Bella : Legislation and the Depression
Explore interwar Britain through Liberal reforms, unemployment, the Depression, poverty surveys, regional divides, and the harsh means test.
Electoral inequalities in Victorian England: the Road to Male Suffrage
Eventually, after a long struggle (The Peterloo Massacre in 1819), the First Reform Act was passed in 1832, which resulted in an extension of male suffrage.
Victorian philanthropy in 19th century England
Charity was widespread during the 19th century though the actual amount distributed is difficult to estimate.
The Poor Law Amendment Act (1834)
The aim was to dissuade all but the very hopeless from seeking assistance since poverty was the fault of the individual and should be punished.
Scotland: the State, the Nation, Home Rule, and Devolution
Define Scotland’s state, nation, Home Rule and devolution, from imagined communities to the Scotland Act and electoral systems.
The Scottish Parliament
Explore the Scottish Parliament, from Labour’s devolution reforms and the Scotland Act to tuition fees, public opinion, and independence debates.
The rise of the Scottish National Party (SNP)
Trace the rise of the Scottish National Party, from early nationalism and Home Rule movements to political breakthroughs and devolution debates.
Scottish Home Rule
Explore Scottish Home Rule from Victorian autonomy debates to Irish Home Rule, nationalist organisations, and the creation of the SNP in 1934.
The Act of Union of 1707
Explore the Act of Union of 1707, from Darien and succession crises to the Treaty of Union, Scotland’s institutions, and Great Britain’s creation.
Don Álvaro o la Fuerza del Sino por el Duque de Rivas
Don Álvaro, un indiano rico y misterioso que vive en Sevilla, tiene un romance con doña Leonor, hija del Marqués de Calatrava.
Doña Inés (Historia de Amor) por José Martínez Ruiz [Azorín]
José Martínez Ruiz ( Azorín) nació en Monóvar (Alicante) en 1873. Su padre era abogado y fue alcalde del pueblo.
A transformed vision of time in Regeneration
Analyse how Pat Barker transforms time in Regeneration through trauma, memory, hallucination, flashback, repetition and shell shock.
Landscape and mindscape in Regeneration: Burns, trauma and nature
Analyse landscape and mindscape in Pat Barker’s Regeneration through Burns, trauma, focalisation, hostile nature and the return of war memory.
Historical figures and fictional characters in Regeneration
Analyse how Pat Barker blends real historical figures and fictional characters in Regeneration to explore war trauma, memory, class and moral conflict.
First dialogue between Rivers and Sassoon in Regeneration
Analyse the first dialogue between Rivers and Sassoon in Pat Barker’s Regeneration: sanity, protest, duty, therapy and moral conflict.
The plot in Regeneration by Pat Barker: transformation, trauma and return
Analyse the plot of Pat Barker’s Regeneration through Sassoon, Rivers, Prior, trauma, Craiglockhart and the moral problem of return.
The setting in Regeneration by Pat Barker: Craiglockhart as a second battlefield
Analyse the setting in Pat Barker’s Regeneration: Craiglockhart, the home front, darkness, nature, war trauma and symbolic spaces.
English Literature: Periods, Authors, Works and Study Guide
Explore English literature through its major periods, authors, genres and works, from Beowulf to Shakespeare, Romanticism and modern war writing.
Introduction to Regeneration by Pat Barker: war trauma, history and fiction
Introduction to Pat Barker’s Regeneration: historical fiction, Craiglockhart, shell shock, Rivers, Sassoon, Owen and the trauma of World War One.
War Poet: Wilfred Owen, Poetry and the Pity of War
Study Wilfred Owen’s war poetry, biography, influences, shell shock, Craiglockhart, Sassoon, realism, irony and the famous “pity of war”.
Edward Thomas: nature, England and the quiet poetry of war
Edward Thomas turned English landscape, memory and doubt into haunting war poetry. Discover his life, themes, poems and quiet modern voice.
Rupert Brooke: idealism, patriotism and the myth of the war poet
Rupert Brooke, English war poet of 1914, became famous for The Soldier, patriotic idealism and the myth of beautiful youth sacrificed in WWI.
World War One poetry: why war poetry became a literary problem
World War One poetry changed English literature by moving from patriotic idealism to pity, trauma, irony and disillusionment.
Richard III : Order and Disorder, the Elizabethan problem
It is very often an issue in Shakespeare’s plays. It deals with order and degree: each thing in the Universe has a place in a scale of things.
Richard III: the ambiguity of Richard’s evil
Richard generates a special relation between word and deed. He tells the audience what he is going to do, then does it, and finally recalls what he did.
A Midsummer Night’s Dream : a comedy
Explore A Midsummer Night’s Dream as a comedy through love, disorder, fairy magic, mistaken identity, theatrical play, and restoration.
Structure in A Midsummer Night’s Dream
A Midsummer Night’s Dream is remarkable for the many levels of its text: Theseus and Hippolyta, the young lovers, the mechanicals, and the fairies.