HIST 124 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Rochdale College, Elrond, Picket Fences
22 Apr 2016
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Protest and survive: students and the 1960s: setting the scene, 1950s: romanticization revisted. To understand the 1960s we must understand what came before it. The decade is also known as the decade of the cold war, canadians building bomb shelters out of fear of pending nuclear war. Diefenbunker was one made for the federal government to hide out in. It"s also a period of nuclear families (wife, husband, and kids) the idea of this was to re-establish normalcy and the nuclear family was pivotal to this normalcy. Families could afford to move out of the city to the suburbs and shopping at shopping malls or strip malls. This is misleading however because this was a function of historical memory instead of historical accuracy. For a lot of people the pace of change in our time can be quite perplexing, we see it in the vast changes as the form of family we have single parent families, blended families, etc.
