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The ultimately abortive proposal for a panopticon prison to be built in England was one among his many proposals for legal and social reform. [31] But Bentham spent some sixteen years of his life developing and refining his ideas for the building and hoped that the government would adopt the plan for a National Penitentiary appointing him as ...
Beatrice Webb. Martha Beatrice Webb, Baroness Passfield, FBA (née Potter; 22 January 1858 – 30 April 1943) was an English sociologist, economist, feminist and social reformer. She was among the founders of the London School of Economics and played a crucial role in forming the Fabian Society.
The International Prototype of the Kilogram (referred to by metrologists as the IPK or Le Grand K; sometimes called the ur -kilogram, [1] [2] or urkilogram, [3] particularly by German-language authors writing in English [3] [4]: 30 [5] : 64 ) is an object whose mass was used to define the kilogram from 1889, when it replaced the Kilogramme des ...
1 Notable social reformers in India included. 2 References. Toggle the table of contents. Social reformers of India. 4 languages.
t. e. Dadabhai Naoroji (4 September 1825 – 30 June 1917), also known as the "Grand Old Man of India" and "Unofficial Ambassador of India", was an Indian Independence activist, political leader, merchant, scholar and writer who served as 2nd, 9th, and 22nd President of the Indian National Congress from 1886 to 1887, 1893 to 1894 and 1906 to ...
Lucretia Mott. Lucretia Mott (née Coffin; January 3, 1793 – November 11, 1880) was an American Quaker, abolitionist, women's rights activist, and social reformer. She had formed the idea of reforming the position of women in society when she was amongst the women excluded from the World Anti-Slavery Convention held in London in 1840.
Elizabeth Fry. Elizabeth Fry (née Gurney; 21 May 1780 – 12 October 1845), sometimes referred to as Betsy Fry, [ 1][ 2][ 3] was an English prison reformer, social reformer, philanthropist and Quaker. Fry was a major driving force behind new legislation to improve the treatment of prisoners, especially female inmates, and as such has been ...
Reformism is a type of social movement that aims to bring a social or also a political system closer to the community's ideal. A reform movement is distinguished from more radical social movements such as revolutionary movements which reject those old ideals, in that the ideas are often grounded in liberalism, although they may be rooted in socialist (specifically, social democratic) or ...