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Changing Attitudes and Values

Changing Attitudes and Values. Chapter #6 - Section #3. A New Social Order Arises. The Industrial Revolution slowly changed the social order in the Western World. For centuries, the two main classes were nobles and peasants and their relationship to the land.

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Changing Attitudes and Values

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  1. Changing Attitudes and Values Chapter #6 - Section #3

  2. A New Social Order Arises • The Industrial Revolution slowly changed the social order in the Western World. • For centuries, the two main classes were nobles and peasants and their relationship to the land. • With the spread of industry, a more complex social structure emerged.

  3. Three Social Classes Emerge Upper Class • Included rich business families. • Wealthy entrepreneurs married into aristocratic families, gaining the status of noble titles. Middle Class • Rising mid-level business people and professionals such as doctors and scientists. • Comfortable incomes allowed for a wide range of material goods. • Lower-middle class = teachers, office workers struggled to keep up with their “betters” Lower Class • 30% of the population were made up of workers and peasants

  4. Middle-Class Tastes and Values • The Middle-Class developed its own way of life. • A strict code of etiquette governed social behavior. - how to dress for every occasion - how to give a dinner party - how to pay a social call - when to write letters - how long to mourn for dead relatives - parents strictly supervised their children - children were to be”seen but not heard” - social middle-class household was expected to have at least a cook and a housemaid.

  5. The Ideal Home • By the late 1800s, most middle class families consisted of the husband going to work and the wife staying at home. • The cult of domesticity idealized women and the home. “Home sweet Home” sayings became popular. • The ideal woman was seen as a tender, self-sacrificing caregiver who provided a nest for her children and a peaceful refuge for her husband to escape from the hardships of the working world. • Lower class women worked in low paying garment factories and were responsible for taking care of all household duties.

  6. Women’s Suffrage Sojourner Truth Elizabeth Cady Stanton

  7. Women Work for Rights • Some individual women and women’s groups protested restrictions on women. • They sought a broad range of rights, such as fariness in marriage, divorce and property laws.

  8. Growth of Public Education • Read pg 213 • Answer the following: • What basic education did schools teach by the late 1800s? • What differences in education did boys and girls each have? • Why had colleges and universities changed their curriculum by the late 1800s?

  9. Science Takes New Direction • Researchers advanced startling theories about the natural world. Their new ideas challenged long-held beliefs.

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