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SOCIAL AND CULTURAL BACKGROUND
"Two nations between whom there is no intercourse and no sympathy", B. Disraeli
Positive parts
peace, prosperity and progress
growing middle class
events: Great Exhibition, Victoria as "Empress of India"
Negative parts
poorer working class
-unsanitary conditions
-no access to clean water,food,education
-exploitation of women and children
education and schools
-‘Education Act’ of 1891: compulsory school
-differences beetween whealty and poor families
-Ragged school
overpopulation and disease:
-rapid insustrialisation
-migration
-overpopulation
-poverty
-pollution
-cholera
-new sewage system for wastewater
Religion , philanthropy and social reform
New Religious groups like
EVANGELICAL MOVEMENT
Missionary work and philanthropy
Desire to adapt institutions
Ethical theory
SOCIAL DARWINISM
distorded Darwin’s theory of natural selection by applying it to human society
-Herbert Spencer
-the state invervention and laws designed to help want against societal evolution
ROLE OF WOMEN
-middle class: domestic help
-working class: poorly paid “home work”
-end of the Victorian Age female philanthropists led to fight for better education and working
SOCIAL AND CULTURAL BACKGROUND
RICCHI E POVERI
RELIGIONE
OVER POPULATION
EDUCAZIONE
SOCIAL
DARWINISMO
DONNE