topic 3

Question 1

What were the distinguished classes in the class system at the beginning of the 20th century

Answer 1

Industrial Working Class
-manual labourers
-or skilled craftsmen
-Aspired to being middle class
Lower Middle Class
Middle Class
Upper Class
-inherited wealth

Question 2

What is Deference

Answer 2

The traditional respect given by lower class members to upper class members

• this lowered after the war due to the loss in confidence of the working class had in the upperclass generals
• also the decline of the deference happened as middle and lower class men interacted in the trenches

Question 3

why was there a decline in the upper class

Answer 3

because the aristocrats could no afford to pay death duties so they had to sell their big houses

Question 4

what caused the decline in defence in the 50s

Answer 4

the relaxation of consumer credit meant that working house holds could gain more things

Question 5

A program involved in the satire boom

Answer 5

Beyond the fringe

-made fun of Britain’s establishment. gov, army and the upper class

Question 6

What was the British new wave

Answer 6

A generation of writers and film makers who displayed the changing attitudes to the class system
----- most of them were working class

Question 7

what was the 1963 John Profumo scandal

Answer 7

It was the first sex scandal to be published in mainstream media
Minister of War john Profumo was caught sharing a 19 year old sexual partner with a powerful Russian soviet
normally these kind of rumours were ignored by the press or printed in Satirical magazines such as the Private eye

Question 8

How did sex scandals relate to the decline of deference

Answer 8

• people were shocked that people in power acted that way

- gave people in power a bad rep therefore disliked by the lower classes

Question 9

When was the mini skirt invented

Answer 9

1964 by British Designer Mary Quant

• juxtaposes the normal design of the 50s- long
• led to the sexual liberation for women
• contradicted the conservative values of the 50s

Question 10

what was the popular view from foreign observers on British /peoples attitudes towards sex

Answer 10

That Britain was sexually repressed

• only 1 /10th of the population had had sex education
• sex wasnt mentioned in the press or in public
• The backlash towards Lady Chatterly’s lover (1960) by the older generations and embraced by the younger generations

Question 11

What changed in attitudes towards sex in the 60s

Answer 11

The publishing of books about sex had widened

• increased openness in newspapers
• reporting of sex scandals and using sex to sell consumer goods