Editing Decadence (section)

==== Social change ====
Decadence offers a world-view, in that "it is an ideological phenomenon originating in the experience of a particular group, and it became the aesthetics of the upper-middle class".<ref name=":3">{{Cite journal |last=Morse |first=Margaret |date=1977 |title=Decadence and Social Change: Arthur Schnitzler's Works as an Ongoing Process of Deconstruction |url=https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=a9h&AN=18777937&site=ehost-live |journal=Modern Austrian Literature |volume=10 |issue=2 |pages=37–52 |url-access=registration |via=EBSCOhost}}</ref> Changes in European industrialization and urbanization led to the development of the proletariat, nuclear family, and entrepreneurial class . The values of Decadence formed as an opposition to "those of an earlier and supposedly more vital bourgeoisie".<ref name=":3" /> Aesthetically, progress turns into decay, activity becomes play instead of goal-oriented work, and art becomes a way of life. To individuals that observe the changes in social structure after rapid industrialization, the idea of progress becomes something to rebel against, because this real-world progress seems to be leaving them behind.