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//Dr. Roberta McKnight//
= Nature of Society and Culture for Periods 1900s - 2000s =

• The Industrial Age was in full swing and [|mass production] made priced drop to an all time low. [] || • Women were striving for [|equality] with men || • A new awakening to sexuality in writing and artistic expression || • 1939 [|World War] 2 begins || • [|Blacks] no longer accepted lesser status (fight for equality with whites) || • America was in a time of [|peace and prosperity] after World War 2 (economics and industry was going well) || • Contemporary look and [|tall buildings] became the landscape of many cities.
 * = Society and Culture = ||
 * == 1900s == || • [|Fashion] was formal and romantic. Men were long slim trousers and women wore the high straight front corset with long hips.
 * == 1910s == || • Escalation of immigration and poverty, work safety, and [|child labor problems] categorize this period.
 * == 1920s == || • [|Modernism] movement in the art (freedom of expression began to go against the grain for the times)
 * == 1930s == || • [|Gloom and doom] due to the aftermath of the Great Depression and entitlement program were born to help the needy
 * == 1940s == || • More [|men than ever before went to college] and women had to give up their jobs to the returning men after tasting independence.
 * == 1950s == || • Separate but equal education for Blacks ([|Brown vs Board of Education] ). This was the Supreme Court ruling in the face of a court case the asked for equal education for Blacks.
 * == 1960s == || • 1963[| March on Washington] (Blacks making a statement of integrity) and the Freedom movement

|| • A heightened concerned for the [|environment] (pollution from factories became a concern for environmentalists) || • More divorces and [|single parent] families || Some of the [|big issues] were health-care, social security reform, and gun control. Violence and sex scandals were ever common in the media. ||
 * == 1970s == || • Advances in [|civil right and the woman’s movement] (Blacks were acknowledged as having the same rights as whites)
 * == 1980s == || • Large number of people begin to use [|personal computers] in the home
 * == 1990s == || • It was truly the [|electronic age] with e-commerce rising and becoming the wave of the future
 * == 2000s == || • The era of [|distance education] (online learning or Internet classes)



• Internet and cell phone [|revolutionize] communication (instant messaging and media messaging) ||

//References//
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