Victorian Family Life and Education Flashcards
(10 cards)
Family Structure for upper and middle class
Father: control econ and legal
wife: didn’t’t work, didn’t get money, children
son: school, quality ed, follow dad
Daugther: stay home until married
Family structure working class
Everyone works
What are things victorians struggled with?
Money poverty: working class had just enough to stay alive
Poor conditions: housing multiple people, work long hours dangerous poullution
Disease: choler, anthrax, typhus, fatal and widespread
Living Conditions
Upper class:
homes set apart from lower class
villas, 3-4 people
servants
Lower class:
-8 people per home
-small houses
large families
unsanitary
limited nessecties
How children were viewed
duties:
long work days
moved away from families for work
few rights:
Ed was nessecary
bought and sold
prop not family
Problems Youth faced
illness, effected everyone
poverty, affected Ed and health
girls exploted for prositution and labor
child labor, many families have children work to produce money, dangerous jobs
Modern youth vs. Dickens youth
Modern:
-freedom of expression
-support
Dickens:
-disease
-abuse
-intense gender roles
Both:
-poverty
-education
Social class effect on destiny
Upper class:
-raised by servants
-good ed
-inherit wealth and land
Lower class:
-work at young age
-few attended school
-dangerous labor
-abused
Overall: class determines op in life but could switch class by marrying up or down
Role of social class in ed
Upper class:
-school improvements
-pay for nicer schools
-more formal ed
Lower class:
-ragged schools
-less improvments
-understaffed
-less access to ed
Average school experience
-9 years in school
-compulsory up to age 10 in 1880
-school from 9-4:30
-upper class had personal tutors
-multiple students per classroom
-1 teacher, 1 assistant
