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Settlement movement

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The settlement movement was a reformist social movement that began in the 1880s and peaked around the 1920s in England and the US. [1]

46 relations: Alexander Zelenko, American Civil War, Appalachia, Architecture, Browning Hall, Catholic Worker Movement, Chicago, Development trust, Dorothy Day, Down to the Countryside Movement, Ellen Gates Starr, Francis Herbert Stead, Henrietta Barnett, Henry Street Settlement, Higher education, Hiram House, Hull House, Jacob Riis, James Rossant, Jane Addams, Lenox Hill Neighborhood House, List of active settlement houses, List of historical settlement houses, Manifest destiny, Moscow, New Monasticism, Oxford House (settlement), Percy Alden, Poverty, Poverty reduction, Reformism, Reston, Virginia, Robert E. Simon, Samuel Barnett (reformer), Settlement movement (Israel), Settlement school, Social class, Social Gospel, Social work, Socialism, Stanislav Shatsky, Toynbee Hall, University Settlement Society of New York, Urban design, Victorian era, Walworth.

Alexander Zelenko

Alexander Ustinovich Zelenko (Александр Устинович Зеленко; 1871–1953), was a Russian and Soviet architect and educator, a pioneer in settlement movement and vocational education.

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American Civil War

The American Civil War (also known by other names) was a war fought in the United States from 1861 to 1865.

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Appalachia

Appalachia is a cultural region in the Eastern United States that stretches from the Southern Tier of New York to northern Alabama, Mississippi and Georgia.

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Architecture

Architecture is both the process and the product of planning, designing, and constructing buildings or any other structures.

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Browning Hall

Browning Hall, properly The Robert Browning Settlement, was a social settlement established in Walworth, London, in 1895 – one of a number of such 'settlements' arising out of the settlement movement and the university extension movement.

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Catholic Worker Movement

The Catholic Worker Movement is a collection of autonomous communities of Catholics and their associates founded by Dorothy Day and Peter Maurin in the United States in 1933.

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Chicago

Chicago, officially the City of Chicago, is the third most populous city in the United States, after New York City and Los Angeles.

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Development trust

Development trusts are organisations operating in the United Kingdom that are.

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Dorothy Day

Dorothy Day (November 8, 1897 – November 29, 1980) was an American journalist, social activist, and Catholic convert.

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Down to the Countryside Movement

at appropriate points in the text --> The Up to the Mountains and Down to the Countryside Movement was a policy instituted in the People's Republic of China in the late 1960s and early 1970s.

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Ellen Gates Starr

Ellen Gates Starr (March 19, 1859 – February 10, 1940) was an American social reformer and activist.

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Francis Herbert Stead

Frances Herbert Stead (1857-1928, commonly cited as F. H. Stead) was a British social reformer notable for the establishment of Browning Hall in Walworth, London, in 1894-5, and for his work on the National Committee of Organised Labour which waged a decade-long campaign for the introduction of a general tax funded system of old-age pensions from 1899.

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Henrietta Barnett

Dame Henrietta Octavia Weston Barnett, DBE (née Rowland; 4 May 1851 – 10 June 1936) was a notable English social reformer, educationist, and author.

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Henry Street Settlement

The Henry Street Settlement is a not-for-profit social service agency in the Lower East Side neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City that provides social services, arts programs and health care services to New Yorkers of all ages.

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Higher education

Higher education (also called post-secondary education, third-level or tertiary education) is an optional final stage of formal learning that occurs after completion of secondary education.

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Hiram House

The Hiram House was one of the first settlement houses in the United States.

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Hull House

Hull House was a settlement house in the United States that was co-founded in 1889 by Jane Addams and Ellen Gates Starr.

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Jacob Riis

Jacob August Riis (May 3, 1849 – May 26, 1914) was a Danish-American social reformer, Georgist, "muckraking" journalist and social documentary photographer.

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James Rossant

James Stephan Rossant (August 17, 1928 – December 15, 2009) was an American architect, artist, and professor of architecture.

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Jane Addams

Jane Addams (September 8, 1860May 21, 1935), known as the "mother" of social work, was a pioneer American settlement activist/reformer, social worker, public philosopher, sociologist, public administrator, protestor, author, and leader in women's suffrage and world peace.

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Lenox Hill Neighborhood House

Lenox Hill Neighborhood House (the “Neighborhood House”) is a multi-service community-based organization that serves people in need on the East Side of Manhattan and on Roosevelt Island.

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List of active settlement houses

The list of active settlement houses includes establishments in England, Australia, Canada, and the United States.

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List of historical settlement houses

The list of historical settlement houses includes establishments in England and the United States.

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Manifest destiny

In the 19th century, manifest destiny was a widely held belief in the United States that its settlers were destined to expand across North America.

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Moscow

Moscow (a) is the capital and most populous city of Russia, with 13.2 million residents within the city limits and 17.1 million within the urban area.

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New Monasticism

New Monasticism is a diverse movement, not limited to a specific religious denomination or church and including varying expressions of contemplative life.

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Oxford House (settlement)

Oxford House in Bethnal Green, London was established in September 1884 as one of the first "settlements" by Oxford University as a High-Anglican Church of England counterpart to Toynbee Hall, established around the same time at Whitechapel.

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Percy Alden

Sir Percy Alden (6 June 1865 – 30 June 1944) was a British social worker, land reformer and radical Liberal Party politician.

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Poverty

Poverty is the scarcity or the lack of a certain (variant) amount of material possessions or money.

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Poverty reduction

Poverty reduction, or poverty alleviation, is a set of measures, both economic and humanitarian, that are intended to permanently lift people out of poverty.

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Reformism

Reformism is a political doctrine advocating the reform of an existing system or institution instead of its abolition and replacement.

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Reston, Virginia

Reston is one of the leading "New Town" planned communities in the United States.

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Robert E. Simon

Robert E. "Bob" Simon, Jr. (April 10, 1914 – September 21, 2015) was an American real estate entrepreneur, most known for founding the community of Reston, Virginia.

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Samuel Barnett (reformer)

Samuel Augustus Barnett (8 February 1844 – 17 June 1913) was a Church of England cleric and social reformer who was particularly associated with the establishment of the first university settlement, Toynbee Hall, in east London in 1884.

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Settlement movement (Israel)

Settlement movement (תנועת התיישבות) is a term used in Israel to describe national umbrella organisations for kibbutzim, moshavim, moshavim shitufiim, and community settlements.

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Settlement school

Settlement schools are social reform institutions established in rural Appalachia in the early 20th century with the purpose of educating mountain children and improving their isolated rural communities.

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Social class

A social class is a set of subjectively defined concepts in the social sciences and political theory centered on models of social stratification in which people are grouped into a set of hierarchical social categories, the most common being the upper, middle and lower classes.

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Social Gospel

The Social Gospel was a movement in North American Protestantism which applied Christian ethics to social problems, especially issues of social justice such as economic inequality, poverty, alcoholism, crime, racial tensions, slums, unclean environment, child labor, inadequate labor unions, poor schools, and the danger of war.

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Social work

Social work is an academic discipline and profession that concerns itself with individuals, families, groups and communities in an effort to enhance social functioning and overall well-being.

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Socialism

Socialism is a range of economic and social systems characterised by social ownership and democratic control of the means of production as well as the political theories and movements associated with them.

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Stanislav Shatsky

Stanislav Shatskii (alternative spelling Shatsky) (1878–1934) was an important humanistic educator, writer, and educational administrator in the late Russian Empire and the early Soviet Union.

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Toynbee Hall

Toynbee Hall is a building in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets, in the East End of London, and is the home of a charity of the same name.

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University Settlement Society of New York

The University Settlement Society of New York is an American organization which provides educational and social services to immigrants and low-income families, located at 184 Eldridge Street (corner of Eldridge and Rivington Streets) on the Lower East Side of the Manhattan borough of New York City, New York.

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Urban design

Urban design is the process of designing and shaping the physical features of cities, towns and villages.

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Victorian era

In the history of the United Kingdom, the Victorian era was the period of Queen Victoria's reign, from 20 June 1837 until her death on 22 January 1901.

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Walworth

Walworth is a district of south east London, England, within the London Borough of Southwark.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Settlement_movement

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