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Victorian Society. Was it all a matter of class?

Victorian Society. Was it all a matter of class?. L.O: To know how the class structure changes in the 19 th Century. To know what the expectations were for each of these classes. To make predictions as to which women from the different classes had the best life.

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Victorian Society. Was it all a matter of class?

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  1. Victorian Society. Was it all a matter of class? L.O: To know how the class structure changes in the 19th Century. To know what the expectations were for each of these classes. To make predictions as to which women from the different classes had the best life.

  2. What do we mean by class?What is it determined by? • Put your ideas down on a Post It note. • Complex but for the purpose of this course we will take it to mean “distinct social groupings, which taken as a whole constitute our British society”.

  3. Class structure prior to Industrial revolution (Circa 1750)

  4. Class structure during the industrial revolution Our consciousness formed in public schools and universities We are the new entrepreneurs These are “sunken people” and Underclass that was never truly acknowledged. They lived in abject poverty.

  5. The upper class • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ARWfCBr0ZDM • Upper class men. • From the moment they left their bedstheirday was governed by do’s and don’ts • Was itright and proper to smoke in front of ladies? • When was itright to bow, ortiponeshat? • Keepingtrack of whateveryoneelse in socialclass was up to was a fulltimeoccupation. Dayswerefull of going to the club and politicalalliegences.

  6. The middle class • These found themselves in a newly elevated position and enjoyed flaunting it. • Most of the members of this class had a profession, doctors, school master, priest, factory owner, shop keeper etc. • They were separated from the upper class by the amount of wealth they had and how they flaunted it.

  7. The lower class. • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=77krUcFYGzU • Victorian society did not recognise the lower classes. The poor were “invisible” • The prevailing attitude was they they deserved to be where they were and the way they lived as they lacked morals. • The best way to deal with them was to ignore them as they were regarded as a burden on society.

  8. So who would have had the best life? • Time to make some predictions and explain them? • Now fill in the table below using the worksheet.

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