Section 1: Chapter 3

Question 1

Rising living standards (5)

Answer 1

New towns
Slum cleavage
Wages & Savings
Food rationing
Homeownership

Question 2

Affluence and Consumerism Impact (4)

Answer 2

Growth in consumer goods
New leisure opportunities
Effects of Car Ownership
Holiday Camps

Question 3

Class and the ‘Establishment’ (8)

Answer 3

Attitudes in 1951
The Establishment
Suez Crisis
CND Rise
Decline in Deference
Profumo Affair
‘Satire Boom’
Criticism of Ruling Elite

Question 4

Position of women (5)

Answer 4

Role of Women in 1950s
Financial dependence on husbands
Improvements for middle class women
Labour saving devices
Beginning of second wave feminism

Question 5

Attitudes to Immigration & Racial Violence (6)

Answer 5

New Commonwealth immigration
Social tension
Outward migration
Racial tension- Notting Hill movement
Oswald Mosey & Union Movement
1962 Commonwealth Immigrants Act

Question 6

Emergence of teenager & youth culture (4)

Answer 6

More time
Post war baby boom and youth culture
Teddy Boys, Rockers, Mods
1964 organised riots

Question 7

Changing social attitudes & tensions

Answer 7

Portrayal of racial tension, sex, violence in pop culture
Social campaigner Mary Whitehouse

Question 8

Change (5) vs Continuity (3) in Britain 1951-1964

Answer 8

Change: affluence/ consumerism, less deferent, women, immigration/ emigration, youth culture
Continuity: women housewives, little immigration in areas, largely socially conservative