Day 10 Agenda

1. Day 10 Agenda Enduring Understanding • Due to changing technology and new opportunities, American society in the 1950s headed towards both a more similar and more diverse culture • Change in the 1950’s affected Americans at work and at home. • Describe the criticisms of mass culture • Review the Unit 1 exam • Read an article on the Baby Boom and utilize a chart to answer questions • Read a primary source document “Organization Man” and draw conclusions • Read a Presidential speech on the GI Bill and evaluate its contents

2. Cultural social and economic changes in the 50s

3. Cultural social and economic changes in the 50s

4. Cultural social and economic changes in the 50s

5. Cultural social and economic changes in the 50s

6. Criticisms of Cultural Change • Religious leaders – thought that the culture was getting away from traditional American values because there was the promotion of sex, gender role changes, the evil of greed, covetousness through advertising and consumerism and increased violence in media. • Writers/artists – thought that the culture was too conformist and stifling, too homogenized, lacking in creativity and individuality – too bland. • Sociologists – thought there was too much peer pressure, too inner directed with individualized goals rather than social communal and outer-directed goals. They believed there was a loss of individual personality due the need to work within an organization system

7. Was cultural change in the 1950s positive or negative? • Did it lead to more or less diversity?

8. Baby Boom reading (pg. 4-5 of packet) • Organization Man (pg. 6 of packet) • Have your book benchmark worksheets out for me to check

9. The Baby Boom • Births dropped from 1943 to 1944 and from 1944 to 1945 • Returning soldiers, changing attitudes about sex, marriage, and the future, economic prosperity. • a) 4.3 = millions of births • b) 4.6 = millions of total new people in population (births and immigration) • c) 1.66 = millions of deaths • d) (4.6m new people – 1.66 m deaths = 2.94 million person increase in population in 1959. • 4. Births dropped more than immigration rose, resulting in a net decease in the number of total new people. • 5. 1st year number of births dropped below 1946 levels was in 1972, but 1964 was the last year before significant drop in births, as well as last year before # of births dropped below 4 million and the birth rate dropped below 20/1000 • 6. Death rose consistently slowly. births rose steeply, then dropped big

10. The Organization Man • A. O-man works in a hierarchical organization where he is not at the top, but hopes to be able to move up. • B. He lives in the suburbs in middle class neighborhoods • C. works in a collective for the betterment of the organization but loathes the word collective • D. Has given himself to the org. giving up individuality, family and spirit • E. Extols the idea of individuality while not having any • F. Is aware of the lack of control in his life but is delusional about his relationship between the reality of the collective and individuality 2. The protestant work ethic of the individual for individual gain does not jive with the demands and facts of the organization collective

11. The Organization Man • The conflict between the American value of individualism and the fact of organization life is that: • individualism is not workable in a hierarchical organizational environment like corporate America or big bureaucracy government, university or research work. • The organization environment is a collective, similar to the collectivism of communist USSR. • Since the two cannot work together, the organization man deluded himself into thinking that he was an individual, that he was not part of a collective – which of course was really not correct.

12. Obama GI Bill Speech • What historical references does Obama make? • What long term effects did the 1944 GI Bill have? • What do you know about the GI Bill that Obama does not talk about?

13. 1. Veterans after previous wars were left with nothing, FDR made it an obligation, approved after D-Day • 2. 8 million Americans educated; created largest middle class; scientists, presidents, doctors etc., provided opportunity for education that many never had, made college an expectation

14. Original Text of the GI Bill 3. Compare the original provisions of the GI Bill to the results that Pres. Obama described What should have Obama mentioned as well? 4. Did the GI Bill accomplish its goals?