Bourgeois flourishing depended on father’s societal role grounding family authority and education

Evidence

During the period in which the bourgeoisie flourished, a fruitful interaction between family and society was possible in which the authority of the father was based on his role in society, while society was renewed with the help of a patriarchal education concentrating on the exercise of authority. Now, however, the admittedly indispensable family has become a mere problem of administrative procedure … Although the form of the family itself is ultimately strengthened by recent measures, with the decreasing significance of the entire middle classes it is losing its independent strength, which was based on the free professional activity of the husband. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 620

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Fromm linked proletarian psychological progress to declining paternal authority — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 551; Decline of middle-class ownership eroded the family’s role and paternal authority; Industrial capitalism rewarded market skill over family status in England (+4 more)

Broader Connections

• Decline of middle-class ownership eroded the family’s role and paternal authority #corroborates (0.85)
• Industrial capitalism rewarded market skill over family status in England #contradicts (0.80)