family values

Why were “family values” so important to the British middle class? Family values were so important to the middle class because as a class they wanted to be better than the other classes in society. It was the only thing that united them. In the late eighteenth century and the early nineteenth century it was a time of industrialisation. The middle class was establishing itself as a class of respectability, and making a living in …

…be considered respectable at that time. 1) C, HALL AND L, DAVIDOFF, FAMIKY FORTUNES. MEN AND WOMEN OF THE ENGLISH MIDDLE CLASS, 1780-1850, (LONDON, 1987) P18 2) J, TOSH, A MANS PLACE. MASCULINITY AND THE MIDDLE CLASS HOME IN VICTORIAN ENLAND, (LONDON, 1999) P15 3) C, HALL, WHITE MALE AND MIDDLE CLASS. EXPLORATIONS IN FEMINISM AND HISTORY, (CAMBRIDGE, 1992) P76-79 4) J, TOSH, A MANS PLACE, (LONDON, 1999) P45 5) IBID, P46 6) C, HALL, WHITE MALE AND MIDDLE CLASS, (CAMBRIDGE, 1992) P88 7) IBID, P89