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"Teenager" is an American word that first appeared in the British social scene in the late 1930s. National attention focused on them from the 1950s onwards. [ 115 ] [ 116 ] [ 117 ] Improved nutrition across the entire population was causing the age of menarche to fall on average by three or four months every decade, for well over a century.
Karl Popper's The Poverty of Historicism is published. Alfred Radcliffe-Brown's A Natural Science of Society is published. Jean-Paul Sartre's The Problem of Method is published. Victor Turner's Schism and Continuity in an African Society is published. Karl Wittfogel's Oriental Despotism: A Comparative Study of Total Power is published.
They were partly the result of the continued decline of British military and imperial prestige and power. In February 1952, King George VI died and was succeeded by his eldest daughter Elizabeth II. Her coronation on 2 June 1953 gave the British people a renewed sense of national pride and enthusiasm which had been lowered by the war.
The Old Poor Law in Scotland: The Experience of Poverty, 1574–1845 (Edinburgh UP, 2022) Mommsen, Wolfgang J., and Wolfgang Mock, eds. The emergence of the welfare state in Britain and Germany, 1850–1950 (Taylor & Francis, 1981). Morgan, Kenneth O. Labour in power, 1945–1951 (1984) online. esp. pp. 142–187. Rose, Michael E.
An American family watching television together in 1958. The 1950s are known as the Golden Age of Television by some people. Sales of TV sets rose tremendously in the 1950s and by 1950 4.4 million families in America had a television set. Americans devoted most of their free time to watching television broadcasts.
In another study on poverty, Wilfred Beckerman estimated that 9.9% of the British population lived below a standardised poverty line in 1973, compared with 6.1% of the population of Belgium. [ 15 ] Low pay was also a major cause of poverty, [ 16 ] [ 17 ] with a report by the TUC in 1968 finding that about 5 million females and about 2.5 million ...
Category: 1950s in North America. 24 languages. ... 1950s in the British Virgin Islands (3 C) C. 1950s in Canada (23 C, 3 P) 1950s in North America by city (3 C)
Losing Ground: American Social Policy, 1950–1980 is a 1984 book about the effectiveness of welfare state policies in the United States between 1950 and 1980 by the political scientist Charles Murray. [2] Both its policy proposals and its methodology have attracted significant controversy. [3] [4] [5] [6]