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A Comparison of Social Trends of the 1950s and 1990s
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Sociology 3AC Tiffany Tsai Midterm Paper 2 1619 2666 Reader: Ruha Benjamin A Comparison of Social Trends of the 1950s and 1990s We Americans have a fondness of looking back to certain times with bouts of nostalgia, clutching closely the burred images of better off and more secure conditions. We seek revive those past years, hoping to cure all of our current societal ills. Why cannot we bring them back? The economy was good, and the family was happy, we say. We see 1950s in the United States as the golden era for the American people, and likewise, the late 1990s was considered as a prosperous time. However, the former decade observed the height of the nuclear family and low divorce rates, while the latter recorded higher rates of marriage dissolution and nonmarital births, as well as low rates of marriage. What was happening differently in these two decades? In order to rationalize these...
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