How were both conformity and nonconformity expressed in the post war world?  Must have at least 3 vocabs Billy Graham Dr. Jonas Salk I Love Lucy conformity beatniks Jack Kerouac rock and roll Chuck Berry Elvis Presley

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  1. How were both conformity and nonconformity expressed in the post war world? 

Must have at least 3 vocabs

Billy Graham
Dr. Jonas Salk
I Love Lucy
conformity
beatniks
Jack Kerouac
rock and roll
Chuck Berry
Elvis Presley

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  • Conformity: Expressed as a white, suburban, middle class, and Christian set of values
    • Suburbs were the focus of conformity
      • Nuclear Family: Mom, dad, and two kids
      • Perfect lawn out front of house
      • Dad works and mom stays home to take care of kids, wears a suit
      • Attend church in their “sunday best” clothing
    • Conformity most expressed culture through television and music
      • Sitcoms like Leave it to Beaver 
      • Jazz music and crooners like Bing Crosby/Frank Sinatra
      • Televangelism: Jimmy Graham
    • Consumer culture
      • Cars, clothes, “Keeping up with the Jones”, modern conveniences like washing machines
    • Anti-Communism
      • Family, freedom, consumerism, and religion would protect against communism
  • Non-conformity: Anything that challenged the white middle class values
    • Rock n’ Roll brought issues of race and class to the youth of the suburbs
      • Elvis Presley, Chuck Berry
      • Religious & conservative backlash against Rock n’ Roll based on what they see on television
    • African-American culture and “race-mixing” was seen as dangerous by whtie society
      • Conformity reinforced segregation
      • Rock and Roll, dance clubs reinforced integration
    • Younger suburban people were bored with conformity and suburban culture and challenged parents notion of ethnicity, sexuality, and consumerism
    • Some television pushed back against conformity
      • I Love Lucy, Milton Berle Show


 

 

 

 

 

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