Socialization In Britain: The Rise Of Respectable Society

Through the course of the early nineteenth century and mid nineteenth century, Britain saw a change in politics, economics, and social implications based on the rise of the new queen. In 1837, the young girl that was the granddaughter of the prior king, King George III. Queen Victoria was raised and started her reign in a time when Britain had great changes in governmental, monarchist, and social factors. Reformation was the first serious issue that Britain as a society saw happening. After the Reform Act was introduced, political institutions began to alter and accept new ideas and transformations. After the reformation, the industrial revolution started to effect the economy and social ideologies within Britain. Not only were there issues

Thompson explains the dramatic impact of socialization by saying, “not that 1830 was some decisive turning-point and outstanding landmark in history, but that it stood in a particularly prominent way at the crossroads between the traditional and the new, neatly demonstrating the twin forces of continuity and change that are always at work in society” (The Rise of Respectable Society, pg. 13). Thompson is demonstrating that the change in the industrial and social implications in Britain were not so much negative, but these two important factors of Britain had never seen change until this point in history. One of the biggest industries that started the change was the cotton industry. Instead of a family hand making cotton made products, the industrial revolution allowed a new invention, the spinning jenny, to become a major change for the economy and people of Britain. Instead of a family making a few cotton goods a day, the spinning jenny could be run to make hundreds of goods. Instead of one family having one spinning jenny in a household, families could combine and work together to produce massive amounts of cotton goods. These cotton mills were the first representation of change that increased the productivity in Britain for this period. The mills were a positive outlook in the amount of supply and demand. The social implications began

Queen Victoria was the woman that everyone wanted to be compared to the past heirs to the throne. Even in the first few years that the Queen was in control, the economic, political, and social differences seemed to combine to allow the growth of a nation. Sometimes all good things have to either go through hardships or fail. The Industrial Revolution of Britain caused great changes in Britain. The positive was that the economy saw growth and citizens began to have jobs that were very different than what they were used to. However, as urbanization and industrialization grew so did the population, the meaning of working, and the conditions of living and working. Workers lost jobs because machines started replacing them. Cities became overpopulated and families could neither afford to live in the city nor could they afford to support their families. The social classes and the meaning of family also changed. Families got smaller and the population decreased. Social classes started to effect each other. When the elites and upper class started downsizing their families, the trend trickled down to the working and lower classes. Finally, the political tension was corrupt because the Queen seemed to have the same beliefs as the Whigs which caused the Tories to question whether the Queen was fit for power. Because of Urbanization, industrialization, social, and