Portugal, Spain, and Italy's Social Changes

Italy has socially changed greatly throughout European History. Towards the beginning was the Italian Renaissance, where women were denied all rights and were basically under their husband's rule and where a rigid class structure was present with the nobility at the top, followed by the merchants, then shopkeepers and professionals, and at the bottom were factory workers. After the World Wars, people saw that, although there still were and still are boundaries between classes, these boundaries can be negotiated and stretched. Women have more rights now and the class structure is much less strict in that people can move from class to class and there isn't too much of the status mindset tht there once was in Italy.

Spain changed greatly throughout Modern European history. Spain went through the "golden age" in which new culture was born and socially people became more into the class system because many people, especially nobles, became more wealthy. By the time the twentieth and twenty-first centuries came around, Spain and Portugal had social classes, but not rigid ones and women began to gain more rights.