HIST 1200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Catharine Beecher, Paternalism, Drill Instructor
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Increasing prevalence of contracts- legal agreements between or among individuals deference: new atmosphere- society of opportunity growing distrust of others everyone is looking for opportunity, some people don"t always play fair. Victorian culture by the 1830s businessman, entrepreneurs, merchants, professional people, lawyers, doctors people who are engaged in market enterprise, more successful people. 1. individualism: self-made man: uses talents and hardwork and climbs upward, self-control, controlling own destiny, controlling emotions, passions, sex: believed that sexual instincts needed to be tightly reigned in. Working class culture to authority of his wife. Resistance: resisted the marketplace and victorian culture. Ex: held on to old model of community. Held on to task oriented labor- resisted time oriented labor. Ex: st. monday- got drunk on sunday, couldn"t work on monday. Believed in drinking- didn"t agree with temperance. Farmers are raising crops as commodities to sell. People are competing individuals to make a profit. Social: market society: result: social class.
