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The economic and social trends that led to significant improvements in the u.s. During the second half of the 20th century, including advancements in science, medicine, poverty reduction, and globalization. Additionally, it discusses the impact of the industrial revolution on societal development and the elimination of diseases such as polio, measles, rubella, and smallpox.
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Trends : As society develops, it also improves economically and socially. During the second half of the 20th century in the U.S. society has changed drastically. The explanation of this drastic change is due to a variety of reasons. In the field of science, medicine saw a great development impacting life expectancy finding a cure to diseases that killed thousands of people, reducing infant mortality and mortality in general, which made life expectancy increased. Economically, U.S. societies got richer and poverty levels dropped, the typical household saw an improvement in their lifestyle as GDP increased; there was a trend in which the U.S. economy was emerging as a great force and one of the most powerful (if not the most powerful) economy in the world. Transportation and communication saw an improvement as well, opening the U.S. to the world. Abundance: The industrial revolution changed completely the way of living. It affected tremendously in those countries that were ahead of the industrial revolution such as England, France, Germany, Soviet, Soviet Union, The U.S., and Japan. These countries improved technologically, socioeconomically, and culturally as countries and their economies became more and more globalized. The Malthusian trap was a term introduced by Reverend Thomas Robert Malthus to explain the societies before the 1800s. In the years of the pre-industrial revolution, economies were impoverished by the increasing growth of the population and slow technological development. Malthus stated that as long as the technology was slowly improving, life would be just in miserable living comfort. Economies and human societies were governed under the same rules in the animal kingdom, mankind was subject to natural selection throughout the Malthusian era. In terms of abundance, countries that are highly societal developed stand out. Economists point to good policies and the quality of a county’s institutions as the reason for its wealth.
Four diseases eliminated: While polio, measles, and rubella have been eliminated from the U.S., smallpox has been eradicated worldwide. The technological and medical advances along with investigations have allowed to developed countries such as the U.S. to eliminate diseases that caused several damages to those who got them in the past.