How far do you agree that the most significant influence on social change in the 1960s and 1970s was popular culture?

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  • How far do you agree that the most significant influence on social change in the 1960s and 1970s was popular culture?
    • Thesis: popular culture was the most significant influence on social change in the 1960s and 1970s
      • Popular culture (especially music) challenge social attitudes/practices e.g. through promoting youth culture/ social satire/ personal liberation
      • Technological developments en masse e.g. colour TV/ transistor radios spread the message of pop culture further/wider
      • Viewed at the time as a significant influence e.g. Larkin's Annus Mirabilis (1967) and Mary Whitehouse
      • Impacted the nation through reflection of social issues e.g. response to Loach's Cathy Come Home
      • Accelerated/shaped broader social issues e.g. acceptance of racial diversity/ changing role of women/ creation of the 'teen'
    • Antithesis: other influences of 1960s and 1970s social change
      • Much mainstream pop culture remained conservative/ resisted social chane e.g. The Black and White Minstrel Show (-78)
      • Pop culture reflected what was already happening > influencing social change e.g. youth rebellion
      • Economic influence - consumerism/ memories of austerity -> 'liberal' society/ reached more
      • Influence of government policy on social mobility e.g. comprehensive education
      • Influence of protest movements e.g. women's lib/ civil rights groups - challenge authority/ shaped legislation

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