What was the new middle class and aristocracy?
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✔✔NEW MIDDLE CLASS :
The middle class is a class of people in the middle of a social hierarchy. In Weberian socio-economic terms, themiddle class is the broad group of people in contemporary society who fall socio-economically between the workingclass and upper class.
✔✔ARISTOCRACY :
the highest class in certain societies, typically comprising people of noble birth holding hereditary titles and offices.
Socially and politically, a landed aristocracy was the dominant class on the continent.
The members of this class were by a common way of life that cut across regional divisions.
Their families were often connected by ties if marriages.
This powerful aristocracy was, however, numerically a small group. The growth of towns and the emergence of commercial classes whose existence was based on production for the market.
Industrialization began in England in the second half of the eighteenth century, but in France and parts of the German states it occurred only during the nineteenth century.
In its wake, new social groups came into being: a working-class population, and middle classes made up of industrialists, businessmen, professional.
It was among the educated, liberal middle classes that ideas of national unity following the abolition of aristocratic privileges gained popularity.