Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Competitive dating in the 1930s and 1940s rapidly transitioned into the serial monogamy of going steady in the 1950s. The societal upheaval of the 1960s erased most old courtship traditions and scripts, but failed to replace them with any new mores. By the 21st century, although people still meet, pair off, and sometimes marry, there is an ...
Culture change is a term used in public policy making and in workplaces that emphasizes the influence of cultural capital on individual and community behavior. It has been sometimes called repositioning of culture, [1] which means the reconstruction of the cultural concept of a society. [1]
The Diggers took their name from the original English Diggers led by Gerrard Winstanley [114] and sought to create a mini-society free of money and capitalism. [115] On the other hand, the Yippies employed theatrical gestures, such as advancing a pig ("Pigasus the Immortal") as a candidate for president in 1968, to mock the social status quo. [116]
The groovy tunes and psychedelic posters of the previous year were overshadowed by grim headlines and societal upheaval. The assassinations of Martin Luther King Jr. and Robert F. Kennedy deeply ...
A social crisis (or alternately a societal crisis) is a crisis in which the basic structure of a society experiences some drastic interruption or decline. Overview [ edit ]
Social mobility is the movement of individuals, families, households or other categories of people within or between social strata in a society. [1] It is a change in social status relative to one's current social location within a given society.
Worrying about politics is understandable as there's been a great deal of societal upheaval in recent years. Decisions about who holds political office can also impact every area of your life ...
Another way to view the impact of consequential strangers is by pulling the camera back from the individual to the entire network. Each individual travels through life in what was first conceptualized in the 1980s as a "social convoy"—an entourage of people that he or she has collected along the way.