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Changing Attitudes and Values

Changing Attitudes and Values. Chapter 6 Section 3. New Social Order. Three Social Classes Late 1800s in Western Europe Upper classes = very rich business families Middle Class = mid-business people, and professionals like doctors and scientists

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Changing Attitudes and Values

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  1. Changing Attitudes and Values Chapter 6 Section 3

  2. New Social Order • Three Social Classes • Late 1800s in Western Europe • Upper classes = very rich business families • Middle Class = mid-business people, and professionals like doctors and scientists • Lower Middle Class = teachers and office workers • Lowest = Workers, peasants • 30 percent population (1900)

  3. The Ideal Home • Middle Class Husbands who were successful kept women at home • Women • reared children • directed servants • Pious (religious) • CULT OF DOMESTICITY • Idealized women in the home

  4. Women Advance • Elizabeth Cady Stanton • U.S. women rights activist against slavery • Suffrage • What do you think this means? • Discuss with neighbor

  5. Darwin’s Theory • Natural Selection • 1859, Darwin published On The Origins of Species • Hugely controversial • Evolution • Natural Selection • Natural forces selected those with physical traits best adapted to their environment to survive and to pass the trait on to their offspring

  6. Social Darwinism • Idea of survival of the fittest • People applied these ideals how they wished • RASCISM • 1800s, many Europeans and Americans claimed that their success was due to supremacy of white races.

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