Pop Culture: A Divided Society

A Divided Society
During the 1970s, pop culture in America was beginning to reflect the divided nature of American society during that time period. It began to reflect the changes and opinions that different subgroups exhibited. Pop culture made it obvious that society had many different views on their types of leisure activities that they participated in. The changing culture was greatly influenced by society’s views on topics such as, sporting events and films/movies. Baseball was greatly affected by different views; some of society had issues with this idea of big business, while others simply enjoyed the game. Also, movies started to reflect the consensus of America and their changing opinions of relevance. Baseball and movies greatly influenced the varying views of society, pop culture, and a contested culture.
Media started to question the role of hard work, and fair play, “movies presented a jaundiced view of their sport’s violence, racism, political conservatism, and authoritarian structure in which owners “blacklisted” players” (Ashby 427). These controversial themes were finally brought to the eyes of society, making many baseball fans angry at the causes they supported unconsciously. Baseball was often over glamorized as the all American sport, but there were multiple cases of drug abuse, racism, and emotional abuse going on throughout baseball teams. Although certain groups still loved the game, and baseball as a leisure activity, there were parts of society that stopped sympathizing with baseball players, those who were part of this prosperous group (Ashby 429). It started to become less about the achievement of the American Dream, or even winning the game, and more about big business, and bringing in the most