An in-depth compilation of the social developments (including: rise of living standards, affluence and consummerism, the establishment, position of women, race and inmigration, youth culture and changing social attitudes) between in Britain. There are also notes on Britain's foreign relations duri...
The Afluent Society 1951-1964
Created @December 3, 2022 3:26 PM
Topic Foreign Policy Society
Gov and Churchill Conservatives Douglas-Home Eden
PM Macmillan
Type Homework
Social Developments
- Pre-war slums cleared and new towns (e.g. Kirby) were created -
Population shifts awa from urban centres - linked to the increased car
Rising Living
ownership - Rationing ended in 1954 - Homeownership increased due to
Standards
cheaper mortgages but council houses and rented accommodation
outnumbered private homes
- Increase in consumer goods (TVs, washing machines, cars) - Growth of
advertisement, e.g. ITV - Increase in new hobbies e.g. gardening, DIY -
Affluence and
Car ownership increased 25% ‘57-’59 and motorway expansion occurred -
Consummerism
Holiday camps popular (Butlins) - but only 2% of holidays were abroad in
the late 1950s
- Decline in deference by end of 50s - early 60s - Suez Crisis exposed
lying and manipulative government - Pressure groups (CND) encouraged
Class and the challenges to the government - Criticism of the Establishment (those who
‘Establishment’ ruled) - Profumo Affair - media criticised government, sex scandal shocked
nation - Satire increased (e.g. Private Eye) - ‘Angry Young Men’ used arts
to attack behavious of ruling elite
- Primarily seen as housewives - 21 avr age of marriage and 75% married.
Only 1/5 of women worked in 1951 - Family allowance, not in husband’s
Position of
name - 1964 number of women working increased, but not widespread
Women
and Trade Unions didn’t agree - 1957-59 increase in washing machines
and refrigerators, made domestic chores easier
Race and - Immigration from Commonwealth increased racial Tensions - 676,000
Immigration immigrants came to Britain but 1.32 million left Britain to live abroad -
August 1958 - Notting Hill race riots - racial tensions shown. British fascists
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