the instabilities of the Wilhemine "society"

I think the 2 biggest reasons why this particular time in German history was so unstable was because of the conflict between modernity and the past and the fact that this society was increasingly divided. When one sees the economic unrest, as Jennifer said in class, "the face of capitalism was changing." This economic shift, thanks to the 1st and 2nd industrial revolutions, had transferred most of the economy from the villages (agrarian) to the cities (modernity). Even today, while kids talk about I-phones and technology, the older generation talks of how things used to be back "in the good ole days." These exists this un-noticed tension between progress and tradition: the future and the past. There were tons of people throughout Germnay that did not like this "progress" and wanted things to go back to the way it used to be. Increasingly, more and more people were afraid of this "mass" culture developing in Germany. This development was scary; was this an unfortunate consequence of progress? This idea leads into another trend; the country was increasingly divided. National minorities were seen as forces for disintegration and threating to a unified Germany in the minds of many germans. Jews were increasingly becoming scapegoats 4 the country's problems. Because Catholics formed their own communities, many saw them as separate from the rest of German society, and thus a threat. The SPD, conservatives, and Liberals also helped dis-unify the country, further adding to the instability of this time period. On the whole, Wilhemine society was unstable, unfriendly, and disunified.