1.5 Changing Society Videos To Help
Learning objective 1: Economic change produced new social patterns, while traditions of hierarchy and status persisted.
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Learning objective 2: Most Europeans derived their livelihood from agriculture and oriented their lives around the seasons, the village, or the manor, although economic changes began to alter rural production and power.
Learning objective 3: Population shifts and growing commerce caused the expansion of cities, which often found their traditional political and social structures stressed by the growth.
Learning objective 4: The family remained the primary social and economic institution of early modern Europe and took several forms, including the nuclear family.
Learning objective 5: Popular culture, leisure activities, and rituals reflecting the persistence of folk ideas reinforced and sometimes challenged communal ties and norms.