Sixties Revolution & multi-culturalism
What is meant by the Sixties Revolution?
In the 1960s Britain started developing into a more permissive society. A permissive society is a tolerant and lenient society regarding various aspects of culture or interests. It is a term that reminds people today of the type of society that has existed in most of Europe, Australia and North America since the 1960s, in which there was and still is a great amount of freedom in all aspects of people’s daily lives as well as a rapid change in morals. In Britain this is exemplified by the slowly loosening grip of Victorian values in this time period. During what was to be later called the Sixties Revolution, otherwise referred to as the social and sexual revolution, new attitudes regarding the arts, homosexuality and abortion were developing. Indeed, it brought along with it the appearance of different youth cultures, mostly nourished by revolutionary changes in music, the relaxing of sexual attitudes, a dramatic improvement in the status of women inside as well as outside their homes, and a decline of the influence of religion over America, Europe and Australia.
The Sixties Revolution was made up of a series of events during that time period that marked its progress. Some of these include changes in pop music, sexual restraint, protest movements and many more. Most will argue that the discovery of sex, drugs and rock ‘n’ roll by the young were some of the most revolutionary changes in British society and it helped define what we see today as a permissive society. There were not, however, any key and revolutionary events that marked the beginning of the Revolution as one might expect. Arguably the Penguin Book Company’s trial after the publishing of ‘Lady Chatterley’s Lover’, which contained sexually explicit material, was a sign that change was coming as the company was later found not guilty. An important time in this period to take note of, though, was the summer of 1968, also known as the ‘Summer of Love’, which
In the 1960s Britain started developing into a more permissive society. A permissive society is a tolerant and lenient society regarding various aspects of culture or interests. It is a term that reminds people today of the type of society that has existed in most of Europe, Australia and North America since the 1960s, in which there was and still is a great amount of freedom in all aspects of people’s daily lives as well as a rapid change in morals. In Britain this is exemplified by the slowly loosening grip of Victorian values in this time period. During what was to be later called the Sixties Revolution, otherwise referred to as the social and sexual revolution, new attitudes regarding the arts, homosexuality and abortion were developing. Indeed, it brought along with it the appearance of different youth cultures, mostly nourished by revolutionary changes in music, the relaxing of sexual attitudes, a dramatic improvement in the status of women inside as well as outside their homes, and a decline of the influence of religion over America, Europe and Australia.
The Sixties Revolution was made up of a series of events during that time period that marked its progress. Some of these include changes in pop music, sexual restraint, protest movements and many more. Most will argue that the discovery of sex, drugs and rock ‘n’ roll by the young were some of the most revolutionary changes in British society and it helped define what we see today as a permissive society. There were not, however, any key and revolutionary events that marked the beginning of the Revolution as one might expect. Arguably the Penguin Book Company’s trial after the publishing of ‘Lady Chatterley’s Lover’, which contained sexually explicit material, was a sign that change was coming as the company was later found not guilty. An important time in this period to take note of, though, was the summer of 1968, also known as the ‘Summer of Love’, which