CRM 2302 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Conspicuous Consumption, Counterculture, Subculture
23 Nov 2017
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Crm 2302 january 25th, 2017 - shifting our understanding of subcultures. 1950s & 1960s critical crim, the origins, conservative time. World war 2 europe was economical was gone. Great prosperity, rise in consumerism example small closet compared to what closets are now, how many pairs of shoes people have. Post-war boom based on middle class values. Mccarthyism, cold war we were fighting along side black people. Social pressures needing to get married in order to survive. 1950s = the nuclear family ideas and this dream. Segregation but after world war 2 things changed, because after the war. Increasing access to post-secondary education, raised expectations. Deteriorating inner cities, growth of middle-class suburbs. End of segregation, but settlement patterns already firmly reflected socio-economic divisions. Rising problem of gangs viewed as a lower class issue, by superior middle class suburbanites. 50s dominated by conservative, individualist social values - i. e. the poor deserved it.
