HIS 102 1st Edition Lecture 23 Outline of Last Lecture I Defining the middle class or bourgeoisie II Liberal politics III Middle class political gains A France 1830 another revolution B Britain and the 1832 Great Reform Act Outline of Current Lecture I A middle class age A The way in which the middle class shapes values to match their own 1 Culture and morality 2 Monarchs skilled laborers and upper class begin to adopt versions of middle class values B Political gains 1 England 2 France C Architects of capitalist economy II A culture of respectability A Respectability is the guiding ideal 1 Intense morality 2 Even the market has a moral structure economy B Family sobriety temperance movement frugality industry work is important become industrious people educational attainment religious still the foundation of middle class life sexual propriety abstinence until marriage promiscuity frowned upon 1 All of these connected to the idea of self control defines them as separate from lower and upper classes because of mastery over impulses III Middle class family A Separate spheres 1 Outside the home individualism equal opportunity competition 2 Inside the home dominated by men patriarchal no individual interest lack of equality These notes represent a detailed interpretation of the professor s lecture GradeBuddy is best used as a supplement to your own notes not as a substitute IV 3 Women never work outside household in middle class families job is inside the house i Domestic servants are a given for middle class families ii Marriage is very important have to choose someone carefully because divorce is frowned upon and sometimes not available iii Public male work to support family financially ethical values sometimes negated morally compromised vs private female creating a home to be a haven from the work sphere supervision of servants raising children to be moral and religious spheres this separation is referred to as the culture of domesticity B Defining gender cultural construct 1 Difference between gender cultural societal and sex biological 2 Ex blue for boys pink for girls 3 Coventry Patmore The Angel in the Household Sources of change a nascent culture of consumption A Increasingly defined by pleasure of marketplace 1 Recreational shopping just shopping for the pleasure of shopping not out of need 2 Change from delayed gratification to instant gratification eternal present
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