People
What Rock and Roll Singer became an immensely popular entertainment celebrity?
Elvis Presley
True or false: Beat Poet Ginsberg’s “Howl” supported conformism and materialism
false
Name an item of clothing that teenagers started to wear during this time period
leather jackets
This dominant ideal played a large part in the 1950s:
Consensus
James Dean was portrayed as:
aimlessly rebellious youth
“Catcher in the Rye”, Blackboard Jungle, and Rebel without a cause spurred what?
panic about juvenile delinquency
This was often celebrated more commonly in private during the 1950s
Freedom
True or False- Beats believed freedom was the hallmark of American Society
False
This man challenged Democratic Pluralism with “Power Elite”
C. Wright Mills
What was limited in comic books?
the portrayal of violence and crime
True of False - significant generational tensions lay beneath the bland surface of 1950’s
True
These people were said to demonstrate greater national sacrifice than the Americans.
the Russians
The beat poet, Allen Ginsberg was known for:
writing “Howl” while under the influence of hallucinogenic drugs
This book was considered the most influential work of social analysis
The Lonely Crowd - David Riesman
Corporate Bureaucracies made “organized men” incapable of this:
independent thought
Who were the Beats?
small group of poets and writers rallied against mainstream culture