The Status Seekers
Manuel Rodriguez
History of America post World War II
1. What does Packard’s The Status Seekers tell us about the United States in the 1950’s? What does it omit?
The Status Seekers tends to tell us as readers a lot on American social classes during the 1950’s. It showed how little by little there was starting to form big gaps in the social classes in the United States, and what exactly were the factors that were causing these gaps. Americans began to worry about the relationship between social class and economic growth. Many felt that although economic growth was beneficial for everyone as a whole, that it’d deepen the division in the social classes. This book also spoke on how the growth of prosperity caused the economy to rise and the technological growth also contributed greatly.
2. What evidence is there in The Status Seekers that the atmosphere of the cold war, especially the American struggle with communism, shaped Packard’s approach?
Throughout the reading there is much evidence that express the tension and sense of worry in American society during the 1950’s, especially during the scare of communism. The atmosphere was a sense of urgency and …show more content…
I feel that women are sometimes still constrained to the domestic life but it is nowhere close to how it was back in the 1950’s. However, in the 1950’s they were treated unequal and sometimes subordinate to men and although it’s not as obvious today sometimes these views still are shown in other ways, just like racism. Racism still exists but is seen and expressed in different ways, same as views on women and their equal rights. We still live in a country where women get paid 75 cents working in the same job to the men’s $1. We as a society are yet to see a women become president and a lot of the time in the workplace there is a lack of respect for women in higher power. Men now feel degraded or demeaning when a women is their
History of America post World War II
1. What does Packard’s The Status Seekers tell us about the United States in the 1950’s? What does it omit?
The Status Seekers tends to tell us as readers a lot on American social classes during the 1950’s. It showed how little by little there was starting to form big gaps in the social classes in the United States, and what exactly were the factors that were causing these gaps. Americans began to worry about the relationship between social class and economic growth. Many felt that although economic growth was beneficial for everyone as a whole, that it’d deepen the division in the social classes. This book also spoke on how the growth of prosperity caused the economy to rise and the technological growth also contributed greatly.
2. What evidence is there in The Status Seekers that the atmosphere of the cold war, especially the American struggle with communism, shaped Packard’s approach?
Throughout the reading there is much evidence that express the tension and sense of worry in American society during the 1950’s, especially during the scare of communism. The atmosphere was a sense of urgency and …show more content…
I feel that women are sometimes still constrained to the domestic life but it is nowhere close to how it was back in the 1950’s. However, in the 1950’s they were treated unequal and sometimes subordinate to men and although it’s not as obvious today sometimes these views still are shown in other ways, just like racism. Racism still exists but is seen and expressed in different ways, same as views on women and their equal rights. We still live in a country where women get paid 75 cents working in the same job to the men’s $1. We as a society are yet to see a women become president and a lot of the time in the workplace there is a lack of respect for women in higher power. Men now feel degraded or demeaning when a women is their