CRJU 591C Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Drug Enforcement Administration, United States Sentencing Commission, Crack Cocaine
Historical Conditions and Social Change
Lecture Outline
A. Historical Changes
1. 1928: Unemployment begins to rise
▪ Legitimacy crisis = people didn’t trust economy
2. 1933-1934: New Deal Phase 1
▪ Federal Emergency Relief Administration
3. 1935-1938: New Deal Phase II
▪ Works Progress Administration
▪ Social Security Act
4. 1941-1945: WWII
5. 1945-1970s:
▪ Modernization
▪ Move to Cities
o Largely black communities b/c they were the southern agriculturists but
they were being replaced by higher skilled workers and machine
▪ Civil Rights Movement
o Segregation was a result of the black southern agriculturists moving into
the cities
▪ Vietnam War
▪ 3 important changes in family dynamics: (1970s)
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o Single parent household
o Delaying marriage
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