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OBJECTIVES 7c. Evaluate the role mass media has
played in shaping perceptions toward certain policies, social groups, other nations, and political ideas.
7d. Contrast modernism and traditionalism relating to social change.
TRADITIONAL V MODERN Conservative
Women Prohibition and
Gambling Restrictions
Religion Theatre and
Symphony Newspapers
Loose Women Speakeasies and
Gambling Halls Evolution Talkies and the
Jazz Age Radio
Old School
New School
TRADITIONAL WOMEN V MODERN WOMEN
Conservative women were traditionally expected to act a certain way. Don’t drink Don’t smoke Don’t be loud Dress Conservatively Don’t work and live
independently.
Flappers were much more loose and casual with the way they carried themselves. They Drank They Smoked They were outgoing. Dressed
Provocatively Worked and made
their own money.
TRADITIONAL MORALS V MODERN MORALS
Prohibition of Alcohol and Gambling were attempts to legislate morality.
Speakeasies and Underground Gambling Halls became the “norm”
Organized crime (Al Capone, Bugs Moran) supplied these bars with their booze and made millions.
TRADITIONAL VALUES V MODERN VALUES
Religious Education Tennessee State Law
prohibited the teaching evolution in science classrooms.
Evolution Education John Scopes decided
to teach it anyway. His case “The Scopes
Trial” went all the way to the Tennessee Supreme Court.
The original law banning evolution was upheld but this began the argument for teaching evolution in classrooms.
TRADITIONAL V MODERNEntertainment
Traditionally people went to the theatre or the symphony for entertainment.
People went to the movies to see talkies or to the dance halls and speakeasies to listen and Dance to Jazz.
TRADITIONAL V MODERN
The invention of the Radio allowed people to listen to music and news in their homes.
This new entertainment and form of communication contributed to the rise of “mass culture.”Everybody has
access to the same information/stuff.
HARLEM RENAISSANCE Rebirth of African
American Culture and Pride through music, literature and art.Langston HughesClaude McKayZora Neale Hurston