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    SOCIAL‚ ECONOMIC OR POLITICAL EVENTS OF THE 1950S Social‚ Economic or Political Events of the 1950s to the 1990s Kelly Postl AXIA College-University of Phoenix The American Experience Since 1945 - HIS135 Jill Le Gare February 24‚ 2008 Social‚ Economic or Political Events of the 1950s to the 1990s The 1950s – Racial Challenges Challenging racial prejudice in the United States in the 1950s was a daunting undertaking. While African-Americans‚ in the main‚ again bore the brunt of the

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    1950s in America

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    Conner Regan Mrs. Dills Honors American Literature Friday‚ April 26‚ 2013 American Culture of the 1950s Over the course of American history‚ many iconic events and movements have taken place that help shape the United States’ role of the past. One decade in particular stands out above the rest as being unique in terms of literature produced and developments that took place. The 1950s harbored the Korean War‚ Cold War‚ and the Civil Rights Movement among other things. From the Revolutionary period

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    Asch On Conformity

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    Evaluate research (theories and/or studies) on conformity. Conformity is the propensity to adjust one’s opinions‚ feelings or performance in ways that are in agreement with those of a specific individual or group‚ or with known standards about how a person should behave in certain situations (social norms). The recognized studies and theories on conformity are such as (Asch‚ 1951)‚ (Sherif‚ 1935) and (Jenness‚ 1932). Asch examined men in a university in the United States of America. He gave them

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    societal institutions could only serve to corrupt that inherent good (Independence Hall Association). In one of Emerson’s most iconic essays‚ Self Reliance‚ Emerson further took that idea and espoused that the only way for a man to live was through non-conformity and remaining true only to ones nature- for good or ill. Beginning work on the essay as early as 1832‚ published for the first time in 1841‚ then revised and published again in 1847‚ Self Reliance was a work continuously updated based on the current

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    Conformity In Society

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    Human beings are defined as ’’social animals’’ because in every aspects of life they live together‚ they form a variety of groups and improve relationships with each other. Interaction with others is a natural result of living in society. In the process of interaction‚ society and its rules has a social impact on each individual. If people face with any kind of social impact such as group pressure‚ great part of them show conformity by changing their behaviors‚ ideas‚ decisions in expected way. A

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    Normative Conformity

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    1. The two major types of social influence leading to conformity is informational social influence and normative social influence. • Informational social influence or “social proof”‚ our desire to be right in situations in which the correct action or judgement is not obvious and we need information. Example: On your way to a concert‚ but not sure where the entrance is‚ lots of people are going in a certain direction‚ you follow everyone else. You follow because you lack the information so you do

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    at some point. John F. Kennedy claimed‚ “Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.” When it comes to the topic of conformity‚ most of us will readily agree that individuality changes the world. Where this agreement usually ends‚ however‚ is on the question of is conformity that bad? While some are convinced that conformity is great for the world‚ others believe that conformity is the death of us. I tend to fall on the side where conformity is the death of us‚ because without individuality

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    THE BEAT GENERATION IN THE SOCIAL CONTEXT OF AMERICA OF THE 1950s "Being against what the Beat Generation stands for has to do with denying that incoherence is superior to precision; that ignorance is superior to knowledge; that the exercise of mind and discrimination is a form of death…" (N.Podhoretz "The Know-Nothing Bohemians") Like the „Lost Generation" of the 1920s‚ the American „Beat Generation names both literary current and a broader cultural phenomenon or mood. Rejecting the conformism

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    Life in 1950s

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    Life in Australia in 1950s Life in Australia after WWII was remarkably different to life before the war. There are many aspects of life that changed‚ including leisure‚ the role of women and the development of Industry. These reasons all combined to dramatically change life in the 1950s. For women in the 1950s‚ life was centred on the family and domestic duties. During the war women became accustomed to the workforce‚ and the return of men marked the end of their working life. Women who held

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    October 2008 The Gilded Age may have provided the United States with a period of growth and change after the tumultuous times of reconstruction and the Civil War‚ but the Progressive Era refined the country with political‚ social and economic reform. Four major sectors of such reform included theory and practice‚ regulating big business‚ organizing the working class‚ and civilizing the city. In the Progressive Era‚ reform Darwinism directly challenged the previous theory of social Darwinism and the inevitability

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