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COUNTER CULTURE
FLAPPERS
HONORS SOCIOLOGY
NATE? HIMMONS
During the 1920?s, American culture went through a great change as a result of World War I. With jazz on the horizon, media rising, and technology advancing, the norms of American culture began to change, especially with the role of women. The flappers, a nickname for northern, urban middle class women, who challenged society?s Victorian traditional values, practices, and behaviors of the larger society. According to this publisher, a counterculture is a group that rejects the major values, norms, and behaviors of the larger society (Thomas, 2003). During this time, Americans saw a rise in a particular counterculture …show more content…
culture by using cultural relativism, I was able to see the reasoning behind their rebellious sexual actions. According to Freud, the flappers were releasing their satisfactory needs in order to stay healthy. Then, using the sociological perspective the larger society, older traditional women, norms and behaviors were restricting women from living their fullest lives from their ethnocentric views on their behavior. Again, that is why I feel that the flappers? actions were more than just a simple rebel against the larger society norms. The flappers were boldly speaking out for women?s rights and roles in society. In the end, the flapper culture reestablish women?s place in society, which is that women are more than a traditional Victorian housewife.
Works Cited
Cohen, D. M. (2016). The American Pageant. Boston: Cengage Learning .
Counterculture Weebly . (n.d.). Retrieved from https://counterculturemovements.weebly.com/1920s.html
Flapper Culture. (n.d.). Retrieved from www.1920s-fashion-and-music.com/flapper-culture
Hanson, E. (1952). A Cultural History of the United States: Through the Decades The 1920s. San Diego, California : Lucent Books Inc. Retrieved March 7, 2018
Thomas, W. L. (2003). Sociology: The Study of Human Relationships. Austin, Texas: Holt RineHart and Winston .
Thorton, S. (2011). Signmund Freud (1856-1939). Retrieved from
COUNTER CULTURE
FLAPPERS
HONORS SOCIOLOGY
NATE? HIMMONS
During the 1920?s, American culture went through a great change as a result of World War I. With jazz on the horizon, media rising, and technology advancing, the norms of American culture began to change, especially with the role of women. The flappers, a nickname for northern, urban middle class women, who challenged society?s Victorian traditional values, practices, and behaviors of the larger society. According to this publisher, a counterculture is a group that rejects the major values, norms, and behaviors of the larger society (Thomas, 2003). During this time, Americans saw a rise in a particular counterculture …show more content…
culture by using cultural relativism, I was able to see the reasoning behind their rebellious sexual actions. According to Freud, the flappers were releasing their satisfactory needs in order to stay healthy. Then, using the sociological perspective the larger society, older traditional women, norms and behaviors were restricting women from living their fullest lives from their ethnocentric views on their behavior. Again, that is why I feel that the flappers? actions were more than just a simple rebel against the larger society norms. The flappers were boldly speaking out for women?s rights and roles in society. In the end, the flapper culture reestablish women?s place in society, which is that women are more than a traditional Victorian housewife.
Works Cited
Cohen, D. M. (2016). The American Pageant. Boston: Cengage Learning .
Counterculture Weebly . (n.d.). Retrieved from https://counterculturemovements.weebly.com/1920s.html
Flapper Culture. (n.d.). Retrieved from www.1920s-fashion-and-music.com/flapper-culture
Hanson, E. (1952). A Cultural History of the United States: Through the Decades The 1920s. San Diego, California : Lucent Books Inc. Retrieved March 7, 2018
Thomas, W. L. (2003). Sociology: The Study of Human Relationships. Austin, Texas: Holt RineHart and Winston .
Thorton, S. (2011). Signmund Freud (1856-1939). Retrieved from