1/11 and 8.5
8.5 Daily Video on AP Classroom
What are the traditional gender roles from the 1950's?
Revisit- Pledge of allegiance- Why add "under God" at this time?
What was the advantage of living in Levittown or a comparable suburb?
Why was Levittown a good business model for the company and customers?
What things mentioned in the video are still big American institutions? (continuity)
Why reject the conformity of the 1950's?
After the rare (but important) examples of rebels in the 1950's, what movements emerged in the 1960's and 1970's? (Change)
Period 8: 1945-1980, Topic 5- American Culture after 1945
Student Learning Objective- Explain how mass culture has been challenged or maintained over time.
“[The Organization men] are not the workers, nor are they the white-collar people in the usual, clerk sense of the word. These people only work for The Organization. . . . They are the ones of our middle class who have left home . . . to take the vows of organization life, and it is they who are the mind and soul of our great self-perpetuating institutions. . . .
“America has paid much attention to the economic and political consequences of big organization—the concentration of power in large corporations, for example, [or] the political power of the civil-service bureaucracies. . . . No less important is the personal impact that organization life has had on the individuals within it. . . .
“The pressures of the group, the frustrations of individual creativity, the anonymity of achievement: are these defects to struggle against . . . ?
“Precisely because it is the age of organization, it is the other side of the coin that needs emphasis. We do need to know how to cooperate with The Organization but, more than ever, so do we need to know how to resist it. . . .
“If [the Organization man] goes against the group, is he being courageous—or just stubborn? Helpful—or selfish? Is he, as he so often wonders, right after all? It is in the resolution of a multitude of such dilemmas, I submit, that the real issue of individualism lies today”
Discussion Question #1- Whyte’s concern in the excerpt for “the pressures of the group, the frustrations of individual creativity” best provides evidence for what development in the 1950s?
Discussion Question #2- How did artists and intellectuals demonstrate individualism?
Discussion Question #3- Before we discuss what the American Dream of the 1950's was, what does "American Dream" mean? What is a short history of it?
Discussion Question #4- What was a common American Dream of the 1950's?
Discussion Question #5- What seems to be a common interpretation now?
Discussion Question #6- What is your American Dream?
Upcoming assessment schedule:
Friday, March 12- American Pageant Chapter 37 Quiz
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