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In the United States, the baby boomers have been described as "the largest and most powerful generation in US history." [201] Even though the Baby Boomers were responsible for the cultural revolution of the late 1960s and 1970s, their political views shifted quickly and decisively during the 1980s. This was not because they wanted to reverse ...
The cause of baby booms involves various fertility factors. The best-known baby boom occurred in the mid-twentieth century, sometimes considered to have started after the end of the Second World War, sometimes from the late 1940s, and ending in the 1960s. [1] People born during this period are often called baby boomers.
The counterculture of the 1960s was an anti-establishment cultural phenomenon and political movement that developed in the Western world during the mid-20th century. [ 3 ] It began in the early 1960s, [ 4 ] and continued through the early 1970s. [ 5 ] It is often synonymous with cultural liberalism and with the various social changes of the decade.
The sociological theory of a generation gap first came to light in the 1960s, when the younger generation (later known as baby boomers) seemed to go against everything their parents had previously believed in terms of music, values, government and political views as well as cultural tastes. Sociologists now refer to the "generation gap" as ...
Baby Boomers will undoubtedly remember the sky-high beehive hairdos of the 1960s, and the hairspray Aqua Net helped them achieve towering heights that required multiple showers to undo.
The cultural change in the United States during the 1970s that was experienced by the baby boomers, upon when the majority of them became of age, is complex.The 1960s are remembered as a time of political protests, and radical experimentation with new cultural experiences (the Sexual Revolution, happenings, mainstream awareness of Eastern religions), which were practiced by older Boomers as ...
Baby Boomers. Next up is the baby boom generation, born from 1946 to 1964, whose name can be attributed to the spike in births — or “baby boom” — in the U.S. and Europe following World War II.
He wrote "as the authors (Strauss and Howe) relentlessly attack the iniquitous 'child-abusive culture' of the 1960s and '70s and exult in heaping insult after insult on their own generation -- they caricature Baby Boomers as countercultural, long-haired, sex-obsessed hedonists -- their real agenda begins to surface.