Social Class

Cards (4)

  • Understanding of social position was all-pervasive in Victorian society.
  • The Victorian class system was dependent on inherited status at birth, ownership or non-ownership of land, as well as profession and occupation.
  • The Victorian class system reflected a neatly graded system with elite superiors down to the ‘lower orders’.
  • The Victorian class system persisted up to the end of the century and beyond.