HIS3103 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: The Lonely Crowd, George Tooker, David Riesman
29 Mar 2016
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Bounty and abundance, fear and uncertainty about state of world. Abundance of 1950s middle class, not celebration of wealth, more celebration of middle class abundance, everyone should participate in middle class life and that everyone is middle class. Like fordism for middle class to have available houses. People thought that suburbs were destroying private life in their homes, no one could truly be happy there, criticize the suburbs so much, destroyed community life: encouraged privatization. No public access: suburbs blamed for killing downtown life. Outward conformity is not necessarily inward conformity. John keats, *the crack in the picture window*, 1956. Sloan wilson, *the man in the gray flannel suit*, 1957. Soulless communist life in suburbs in corporate world. Reflects back on community base italy as solider. Some critics want to preserve home ownership to upper class, snubbing of lower classes raising up in social class: impact of television. Late 1950s tv displace newspapers, radios, movies, and magazines.
