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NATURE OF URBAN SOCIETY, c. ... AIMS:
(a) widen understanding of impact of urbanization
(b) begin exploration of impact of surging rates of urban growth on society
(c) emphasize importance of urbanization as context for understanding changing
nature of social relations and identities
2. ... GENERAL POINT
*Diversity a key feature of urban experience, even amongst industrial cities – eg compare Manchester and Birmingham. ... FORGING THE MmDLE CLASSES
Cities and towns places on which developing middle classes projected identity and leadership in society, and from which projected their influence on to national society and politics. ...
BUT NOTE: there was always a tension between forces which served to unite and those which served to divide this very disparate group in society.
Important questions to consider: ~-
- Who were the early nineteenth-century urban middle classes? ... ]
-How did middle classes attempt to impose leadership on rest of urban society? ... ]
Be aware too that historians continue to debate extent to which urban middle classes emerged as relatively unified and powerful group in mid-nineteenth-century society.
Approximate Word count = 738
Approximate Pages = 3
(250 words per page double spaced)
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