Changing Attitudes and Values Chapter 6 Section 3
Jan 14, 2016
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 Lower Middle Class = teachers and office workers Lowest = Workers, peasants
30 percent population (1900)
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
Women Advance
Elizabeth Cady Stanton U.S. women rights
activist against slavery
Suffrage What do you think this
means? Discuss with neighbor
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
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.