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QUIZ pp. 657-661

QUIZ pp. 657-661. SOCIAL STRUCTURE OF THE MASS SOCIETY. After 1871  improving standards of living/rising wages…BUT… Gap between rich and poor still enormous Small group of elite at top Large # of very poor at bottom. THE ELITE. 5% of pop controlled 30-40% of wealth

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QUIZ pp. 657-661

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  1. QUIZ pp. 657-661

  2. SOCIAL STRUCTURE OF THE MASS SOCIETY • After 1871  improving standards of living/rising wages…BUT… • Gap between rich and poor still enormous • Small group of elite at top • Large # of very poor at bottom

  3. THE ELITE • 5% of pop controlled 30-40% of wealth • NEW ELITE = aristocrats + wealthy industrialists, bankers, and merchants • BERTHA KRUPP = wealthiest woman in Germany  not an aristocrat • The fusing of aristocrats and plutocrats • Plutocrats bought country houses • Aristocrats bought townhouses • Children of wealthy gain entrance to elite schools • Leadership roles in govt and mil for middle class • Marriage • Class lines still strong in many countries Bertha Krupp

  4. THE MIDDLE CLASS • Middle middle class = • Professionals – medicine, law, civil service • Moderately wealthy industrialists and merchants • Business managers and new professionals – engineers, accountants, chemists • The lower middle class = • Small shop keepers, traders, prosperous peasants • New white collar office workers – secretaries, bank tellers, clerks, salesmen

  5. MIDDLE CLASS VALUES • Victorian values • Importance of science and progress • Hard work • Churchgoing and traditional Christian morality • Propriety = doing the proper/correct thing

  6. THE LOWER CLASS • 80% of the pop – • Landholding peasants, ag workers, sharecroppers • Urban working class = skilled craftsmen, semi-skilled workers • Largest group of the lower class was unskilled workers = day laborers, servants

  7. “THE WOMAN QUESTION” In the 19th century women remained – • Inferior • Economically dependent • Defined by family and household roles The ideal of society – • Marriage • Domesticity • Economic necessity forced women to marry • Increase in marriage rates and decline in illegitimacy rates

  8. NEW VIEW OF CHILDREN • Started with Rousseau in the late 18th cent • Children as unique beings  not little adults • Focus on creating a good environment for children • New children’s games and toys  focus on learning and development

  9. THE WORKING CLASS FAMILY • Hard work was the way of life for the lower classes • Daughters worked until they married • Wages and standards of living increased for the lower classes and more lower class women able to stay home • Increasing consumer consumption • Smaller #’s of children in lower class families began to be the pattern

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