Discussion Question #1: Choose any current social problem that interests you and explain it from each of the sociological perspectives as explained in the two part presentation and the assigned article. In today’s society we are faced with many social problems‚ such as: Poverty Healthcare Education Domestic Violence Substance Abuse and Addiction Parenting Peer pressure global warming broken family’s homelessness Children are our future‚ it’s very important to take care of
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Curtis Markosky English 15A‚ Section 001 12/9/10 Counterculture Essay: Woodstock‚ 1969 When one thinks of hippie movement of the 1960s‚ a few things come to mind: namely free love‚ drugs‚ and rock-n-roll. These things represented the counterculture of the time‚ in which the youth of the nation we rebelling against the stricter conservative values of their parents’ generation. All this came to a peak for three days in the summer of 1969‚ near the little town of Bethel‚ New York‚ in what was
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The 1960’s The 1960’s was a decade of radical change in the United States of America in both social and political aspects of life . Starting with the 1960 election of the youngest presidential candidate to take office through the largest gathering of rock n roll concert goers ever to an event called Woodstock. Sandwiched in between these 2 historic events were equally important life changing and world changing events that would make life for the average everyday Americans different from the
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The Women’s liberation saw much change within the 1960s as women campaigned for equal pay for equal work within the workforce. These women came to be called "Labor Feminists" as they fought for their rights to be acknowledged within the workplace and were active members of unions. Different women’s trade unions worked to secure the rights for women within the work place and they were a critical part of the push that created the Equal Pay Act of 1963. This act made it so that women are now legally
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job. It is pertinent that we show the world that this is not just “a man’s world”‚ it is our world. It is sad that we are still trying to obtain equal rights in the 21st century when our nation has an African-American President. The Feminist counterculture is emerging because many people still don’t know how to react when a woman says “I am a feminist”. They get backlash when the definition of a feminist “is the advocacy of women’s rights on the grounds of political‚ social and economic equality
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It would have been inconceivable at the turn of the 20th century to imagine the musical freedom‚ variety‚ and subcultures that we have today. What began as a counterculture movement in the 1950s and 1960s eventually gave rise to an incredible array of different types of music‚ rock being the most prevalent and ubiquitous among them. Other music scenes followed; punk rock‚ grunge‚ disco‚ R&B‚ and psychedelic rock to name just a few. A great question is how all of this came about – how did a very
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high. The drug use in the book can be related to the dramatic increase of drug use by adolescents in the 60s. This counterculture also led to a generation gap that caused friction between the old and
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Margaret Meade once said‚ “Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful‚ committed individuals can change the world‚ indeed it’s the only thing that ever has.” In the 1960s‚ there was a group that was thoughtful and committed‚ referred to as hippies. Although the group consisted of young college students‚ they had a large impact on the time. With their open-minded ideals‚ they created a powerful group compelled to change the country. To understand what this time was really like‚ one should know how
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The differences between culture‚ subculture‚ and counterculture is that culture means that it’s the entire body of people who the learned beliefs and values as to subculture means that they believe in the culture‚ but they also have introduced other things and believe in that as well. In the group counterculture‚ this differs from the other two because its definition means that when the subculture group starts to believe in so many new things/ideas‚ it gets to the point to where it’s a new culture
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popular new pop songs that reflected the views of the American people toward their government and the dislike of the involvement of the Vietnam War. These songs and others played a huge part in influencing the American people in way never before. 1960s art was influenced by the desire to move into a modern age or future which the space race seemed to show. Major works by influential artists like Alexander Calder and Helen Frankenthaler showed a desire to escape from the status quo. Artists wanted
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