Culture & Improvements in 1950's America
- Created by: Noah_S
- Created on: 08-11-19 17:05
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- 1950's America Culture
- Teenagers
- Ways of rebellion
- Listening to Rock N Roll
- Contains references to sexual acts and getting drunk
- Elvis - Role model for teens
- Watching teenager films
- "Rebel Without a Cause"
- James Dean - Role model actor
- Listening to Rock N Roll
- Birth of a 'Teenager'
- Teens had more spending power than 30's/40's
- Holds parties / hangs out with friends
- Had more leisure time than 30's/40's
- Different interests than older generation
- Cars / Racing / Films
- Rebels against parents
- Ways of rebellion
- 'American Dream' & Conformity
- Family
- 'Nuclear Family' - Middle Class, 1 Boy 1 Girl
- Dad works, Mum at home
- Expected that women were houseworkers
- Son expected to go to Uni & get formal job
- Daughter taught house skills and expected to marry
- Expected that women were houseworkers
- Created Suburbia - Large houses on outskirts of cities
- Identically similar, with similar families inside
- Cars
- Created Suburbia - Large houses on outskirts of cities
- Identically similar, with similar families inside
- Created shopping malls
- For middle class / young / women
- Huge role in American transportation & culture
- 75 million cars on the road by 1956
- Created Suburbia - Large houses on outskirts of cities
- Music
- Rock N Roll - (White version of A.A Blues)
- Elvis - Huge Figure
- Unpopular with older generation
- Leisure time for young
- Rock N Roll - (White version of A.A Blues)
- Family
- Women
- Housewife
- Expected role of a woman
- Lost jobs after WW2 when men came back
- Technology aided with day-to-day work
- Adverts portray women with the role of being a housewife
- Expected role of a woman
- Frustration
- Women who wasn't housewives looked down upon
- Frustration in middle class women leads to 1960s NOW
- Housewife
- Others
- African Americans
- Double V Campaign
- Victory at war and Victory at home
- Launched by the NAACP
- Civil Rights
- Slow progress
- Double V Campaign
- Truman & 'Fair Deal'
- Increase of minimum wage from 40c to 75c
- Exceptions to change
- The Elderly
- Southern States
- African Americans
- Teenagers
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