Social developments Flashcards
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What effect did industrialisation have on the growing population?
ordinary people had to accept fundamental changes (1871-1914)
Who were considered the elites of society?
Prussian military Junker aristocracy
What were the elites involved in?
politics
How may sections were the working class sectioned into?
3
Who was at the top of the working class?
skilled workers e.g., foremen
Who was in the middle of the working class?
semi-skilled workers e.g., coal miners
Who was at the bottom of the working class?
unskilled people
Who was at the very bottom of the social hierarchy?
peasants
What are characteristics of peasants?
- worked in the countryside
- victims of industrial change
What was the position of women like in 1914?
the traditional image of a woman began to breakdown
How were working class and peasant women different to upper class women?
more likely to be manual labourers
What type of culture was perpetuated since the beginning of the second Reich?
elitism and militarism
What did elites have in common?
wanting a united Germany, extension of own wealth and power
What alliance did elites form that ended up being the backbone of the empire?
Alliance of Steel and Rye
What was the role of the military in the second Reich?
- assumed a central role
- Prussian military tradition
- enhanced by Kaisers’ military focus
