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
- Thesis: popular culture was the most significant influence on social change in the 1960s and 1970s
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