HIST 2800 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Betty Friedan, Baby Boomers, Youth Culture
15 Nov 2017
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How to live with a teenage daughter: baby boomers, youth culture and. Main point: over the course of the late 1950s and 1960s, the baby boom generation came of age during a period of incredible economic growth and prosperity. This generation felt disenfranchised from their parents and empowered by their status as the most influential cohort in history to change the world. Rock-n-roll was unlike anything society had heard before; it struck a chord with teenagers and defined this generation"s youth culture experience. By the 1969 everyone agreed that the decade of the 1960s had brought an unprecedented level of social change. Why: economic growth during this time period, people have access to education that they did not have before, baby boomers were becoming teenagers and adults. It was credited to the inspirational example set by the civil rights movement. The struggle of black americans inspired a huge percentage of americans to revolt against the.
