Final exam
Growing up in the 1960’s was very different then the way we grow in in society today. Life was very different regarding food, family structure, television, values, and morals. Many think life may have been more simple then. The 60’s was a very historic time in history for many reasons. Many young adults are eager to learn about what life was like then. It was a time of social revolution after all.
Food today is dramatically different today then it was in the sixties. Today we are overwhelmed with choices of products. Back in the day we did not have as many brands of cereal and food to try to choose between. Fast food chains were not as popular. In the sixties you could get
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Eventually television began to grow and advertising started taking over and that is where people started to turn to get their news. A new variety of shows began demonstrating real life family situations and comedies. People began to relate and also see life from a different perspective and that impacted peoples values and morals.
Family structure was different for their generation as well. Divorce was not nearly as common, people stuck together through thick and thin. Men were mostly responsible for bringing home the money to support the family. Women didn’t need to work because one income was plenty for the family. Taxes were lower then and People the didn’t lust over material items as much as society does today. Women were the ones who stayed home with the children and nurtured the family that was their responsibility. Quality time with family seemed more important in their generation than most see it today.
People that grew up in the sixties experienced different values and morals. Parents were more strict when it came to rules. Children never stayed out past dark and always came home at a decent time on school nights. People would never question their parents and especially not their teachers People then were almost always married before having children. Having a child outside of marriage was very frowned upon and not
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people knew they had to work to pay their bills and provide for their families. Living off of welfare was not accepted by society, it was more of an embarrassment. People understood what hard labor was and hardly complained about it like todays society, it was just part of life then. With all the technological advances we have today we no longer have to do as much actual labor. We have machines that will do the hard work for us. People today only rely on machines and wouldn’t know how to do most of the labor that goes into building or making things. If people didn’t work they wouldn’t be able to pay their medical bills. Jobs didn’t provide insurance like it does today. The insurance that was provided only paid for very serious
Stephanie Coontz's essay `What we really miss about the 1950's' is an essay that talks about a poll taken in 1996 by the Knight-Ridder news agency that more Americans preferred 1950's as the best decade for children to grow up. Coontz doesn't believe that it is a decade for people to remember fondly about, except for financial reasons and better communication within families. Coontz doesn't believe in it as the best decade because of the votes, the 50's only won by nine percent, and especially not by African Americans. Examples from family and financial issues in the 50's that makes it better than other decades from 20's to 80's. She doesn't believe that the 50's should be taken `literally' because from 50's there were changes in values that caused racism, sexism discrimination against women. Even though the 50's were good, it didn't lead to a better 60, 70, and 80.
With the beginnings of the cold war the media and propaganda machine was instrumental in the idea of the nuclear family and how that made America and democracy superior to the “evils” of the Soviet Union and Communism; with this in mind the main goal of the 50’s women was to get married. The women of the time were becoming wives in their late teens and early twenties. Even if a women went to college it was assumed that she was there to meet her future husband. Generally a woman’s economic survival was dependent on men and employment opportunities were minimal.
With improvements to broadcasting technologies and greater access by more families, television was now in more homes in the 1960’s, bringing news, advertising, and family comedy shows to the nation. Moreover, the influence on social aspects of people’s live was apparent when it came to depicting women and their gender roles through acting. Consequently, television played another role regarding social dynamics thus, showing the realities of civil rights and the horrors of war. Additionally, television brought the political candidates to the forefront and had a strong influence on the American people’s political ideologies, as the first ever presidential debate aired on television. Finally, television aided the economy by waging advertising campaigns that convinced consumers to purchase their products. Coupled with consumer’s extra income contributing to a strong economy, despite the slightly high unemployment rates. As can be seen, television played a key role in the social, political, and economic culture in the 1950’s and
... No one really seem to care for one another, everyone was more for themselves. It was more about individuality then conformity, everyone stayed inside their social class no one was willing to take a risk by stepping outside the box. The high class citizen may have been rich and can afford anything they had wanted, but in the long run they were the ones that were neglected by their families because they were never there for their children. Having your children hate you if the worst feeling in the world. People in the lower class didn’t have much. The thing that made them happy was the television and that was a way to cover up the unhappiness that was going on in your home, so you would zone into the TV so that it can take off all the distraction that were going on in your head, at school, work and even in the house. Living after the post war was negative after all.
Family life in the 1700's was highly valued and prioritized. Back in those times families were extremely large in size. There was much inter-marriages from generation to generation, Therefore, everyone in a community was most likely related to each other. Because of these extreme connections between communities, visiting fellow family members was very popular. Many of these visits were informal and prolonged. Out of everyone in a family, the women usually corresponded the most with other relatives. The lack of decently designed roads and great distances made the matter of traveling very important in social activities. In addition, the family was looked upon as a unit of production and enterprise. Most families in the 1700's contained usually twenty to thirty people. These large numbers were due to the fact that the families were extended. Every relative lived together, even if they were distant relatives. Families with ten or twelve children were common and those with twenty or twenty-five children were not regarded as abnormal. But, usually not all the children survived. Typically, four in ten children dies before they reached the age of sixteen.
Many events took place in the 1960’s, but is this time period better than today’s society. The 60’s consist of love, peace, and war. The sixties include the Space Race and colorful clothing. People may say that it is safer or easier to live in the sixties, but it isn’t really , living in a society where that the time a male becomes an adult would be drafted to the Vietnam War or women not having basic rights such as having equality in the workspace . In the sixties President Kennedy and civic activist Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated. These are only the few of the negative things that happened throughout the 1960’s. Today’s society is much better.
As World War Two came to a close, a new American culture was developing all across the United States. Families were moving away from crowded cities into spacious suburban towns to help create a better life for them during and after the baby boom of the post-war era. Teenagers were starting to become independent by listing to their own music and not wearing the same style of clothing as their parents. Aside from the progress of society that was made during this time period, many people still did not discuss controversial issues such as divorce and sexual relations between young people. While many historians regard the 1950s as a time of true conservatism at its finest, it could really be considered a time of true progression in the American way of life.
Events in the 1960s changed the people of that era. People who did adventurous things such as Neil Armstrong walking on the moon and those men who returned home from the Vietnam War inspired them, feminism bettered the life for women, teens began to enjoy life more as the counter culture began, the cold war made people aware of the danger of nuclear technology and the JFK assassination gave people a topic of conversation. Important events today include the discovery of cloning, which is a way of c...
So in the 60’s we as a country were putting our heads together to make things to help everyone. We had a lot of things come out in the 60’s which helped our country because if we didn't have that stuff today we would still be living like them maybe worse. Our food wouldn't be as clean as it is now, our water would have a lot more chemicals in it then it already does now. Not only the tech but we had almost everyone with a good house and car. Us as a country were really putting our brains in. As well as our first black and white schools because we started to solve out racial discrimination problem. Blacks were equals that help our reputation as well as, all of us.
One of the most influential decades that changed American society is the 1960’s. An important aspect of American society even before the 1960’s was the television; however, the 1960’s changed television and the people watching television drastically. The 1960’s shaped the American public by introducing several new concepts to television, such as the use of television as a political device, the dramatic rise of broadcasting stations such as CBS, NBC, and ABC, the creation of relatable shows that the average person could understand, the introduction of variety shows such as the Ed Sullivan Show, and the use of television to help address issues such as racism.
One big reason the 60’s were worse is that most citizens that weren’t white males were treated unfairly. Falcon claims “However, in the society of the 1690s, many people were oppressed and therefore could not live life how they wanted” (2). This means that people back then were treated differently from others for no valid reason.
The 1960’s was a time filled with vibrant colors, tie-dye apparel, bell bottom jeans, psychedelic prints, and also a time well known for social movements. The feminist movement of the 1960’s concentrated on the inconsistency of how women were undesired in the work force, and paid a lower salary compared to men. During this time, women were expected to marry at a young age, start a family, and to become the lady of the house. Fashion helped women to break away from these stereotypes. Women in this era, were seen in more unisex clothing such as denim jeans, t-shirts, and fringed vests. This helped women to become more casual, carefree, and to display their individuality.
The nineteen sixties were a very noteworthy time in America. It can be best culminated by the drastic social change led by the hippies. Before this time period the United States was dominated by clean-cut, conservative culture. Americans generally lived in a conformist society where most people lived out social norms, including the hard working business that and stay at home mom. Then the sixties came around. The hippies love the free-spirited lifestyle that ousted them completely from mainstream American culture.
From observing my grandfathers and hearing stories about them from by parents, I learned that men in general had many roles to fulfill. For example, they had to fulfill their duties as a son, husband, father, and worker and as a member of the society. In the 1950s men were the caretaker, the moneymakers, the head of the house and they were dominant. In other words what they said went there was a sense of superiority. As men, many did not help out around the house other than play with the children, the remainder of the work that dealt with the children and the house was solely up to the women. As sons many men had to take care of the family business after they finished their educat...
Mother worked full time and father was not in the home anymore. Even during the 60’s the rates of divorce was rising, never really understood what happen between the parents. People were separating due to finances, lack of love for each other, or just not being able to be responsible for having children. Friends and family watch over me when I was young until the age of 10 years old. The experience of the growing up faster was presented as being you are old enough to do certain things responsibly, for instance, when school was over coming home to an empty house due to the fact the mother was working.