What Is The Sense Of Political And Social Conformity Invaded The American Dream
When World War II ended, many soldiers returned home from the terrors of combat in hopes of reuniting with their loves ones and living a leisurely life. Since companies did not focus on the war effort anymore, a surge of new businesses began to focus on building technological innovations of household and consumer goods. Thus, the sense of political and social conformity pervaded the American Dream to a great extent by rapidly expanding businesses, standardizing the American lifestyle, investing in luxurious items, raising a family in a suburbanization environment, and reinforcing traditional and stereotypical gender roles on television.
Politically, the White Flight – “the departure of whites from places as urban neighborhoods or schools increasingly …show more content…
As family stability increased, the economic growth and wages amplified because the availability of consumer goods and the desire of luxuries increased dramatically. The G.I Bill provided low-cost mortgages for retuning soldiers, which meant buying a suburban house was cheaper than rending an apartment in a city. Since suburban houses were a perfect environment for raising a family, suburbanization became a sense of conformity for every middle-class family due to the mass production method of building inexpensive, cookie-cutter houses for every young family. Also, people began to afford new household appliances such as washing machines and dishwashers, which created more leisure time for housewives to spend less time in their house. Then, women could enroll into college to get an education and explore other interest besides family and house chores. Also, the number of Americans that owned automobiles tripled and 87% of Americans owned a television by the end of the 1950s. However, the creation of the television remotely led to conformity because over 900 companies, broadcast stations, and television programs advertised the ideal expectations of every individual’s lifestyle which everyone strived to follow the attitudes, beliefs, and behaviors to group norms on television. Therefore, many advertisements in magazines and on television redefined the role of a woman as a dedicated housewife whose only goal in life was to please their husband and
Politically, the White Flight – “the departure of whites from places as urban neighborhoods or schools increasingly …show more content…
As family stability increased, the economic growth and wages amplified because the availability of consumer goods and the desire of luxuries increased dramatically. The G.I Bill provided low-cost mortgages for retuning soldiers, which meant buying a suburban house was cheaper than rending an apartment in a city. Since suburban houses were a perfect environment for raising a family, suburbanization became a sense of conformity for every middle-class family due to the mass production method of building inexpensive, cookie-cutter houses for every young family. Also, people began to afford new household appliances such as washing machines and dishwashers, which created more leisure time for housewives to spend less time in their house. Then, women could enroll into college to get an education and explore other interest besides family and house chores. Also, the number of Americans that owned automobiles tripled and 87% of Americans owned a television by the end of the 1950s. However, the creation of the television remotely led to conformity because over 900 companies, broadcast stations, and television programs advertised the ideal expectations of every individual’s lifestyle which everyone strived to follow the attitudes, beliefs, and behaviors to group norms on television. Therefore, many advertisements in magazines and on television redefined the role of a woman as a dedicated housewife whose only goal in life was to please their husband and