51-64 Society Flashcards
1
Q
Development of youth culture
A
-no longer mandatory to serve in military
-teddy boys, crime and delinquency, listened to american music, old fashioned clothes
-mods, wore suits rode scooters preferred pop music often clashed with rockers, rode motorbikes wore leather listened to rock and roll
-teenagers 10% of population by 1959
2
Q
Satire and the arts
A
- tv shows about social issues e.g cathy came home
- sexually explicit books e.g lady chatterleys lover
- gang violence and racial tension e.g sapphire and a clockwork orange
- shelagh delaney working class wrote ‘a taste of honey’
- mary whitehouse led opposition to this new openess
3
Q
Womens roles:
A
-1/5 women worked, seen primarily as housewives still
-75% were married, average marriage age was 21
-financially dependent on men, mortgages in mens names
-received family allowance so they didnt have to work
-equal pay for teachers (1952) and civil servants (1954)
4
Q
Immigration stats:
A
- immigrants couldnt find work in their native countries so encouraged to come to britain
- 250,000 arrived starting in 1948
- were told their lives would be much improved and prosperous
- 492 arrived on empire windrush
5
Q
Consequences of and attitudes to immigration:
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- britain became more diverse
- people of other races were accepted into society
- rioting and protests became common e.g notting hill
- notting hill riots, outbreaks of violence in notting hill august 1958, white youth attacks west indians and the west indians retaliated, police unprepared to stop them
- salmon report said riots were a law issue, government brought in common wealth immigrants act 1962
6
Q
Groups for/against immigration:
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- white defence league, aimed to preserve britain as a white people only country, wanted to move ethnic minority families out of britain, headquarters in notting hill
- stars campaign, antithesis of wdl, aimed to bring immigrants and british people together, compared wdl to nazis
