Social and Political Cultures of Research Paper

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The technological and otherwise evolutions of the 1970s decade are linked to the Cold War "fought" between the United States of America and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. But by 1980, the vision of an American nation united by the same powerful middle-class values had lost its meaning. The people were each focus on their own benefit and the national wealth took a secondary position in the priorities of the American populations. Due to the politics of liberalization and intensified foreign relations, the U.S. became the house of millions of immigrants, many of whom could not be adequately integrated within the society. It was during the '80s that immigration became a real issue.

Additionally, it as during the 1980s that the social disrupters manifested with most of the intensity.
"As the Cold War waned, the belief in a United States united by shared middle-class values also lost its force. By the 1980s, after years of social struggle and division, few Americans believed in the reality of the vision; many rejected it as undesirable. Although the 1980s were never as contentious as the 1960s and 1970s, deep social divides split Americans" (Norton, Sheriff, Blight and Katzman, 2009).

References:

Norton, M.B., Sheriff, C., Blight, D.W.,

Robertson, D.B., 1998, Loss of confidence: politics and policy in the 1970s, Penn State Press, ISBN 0271018453

Peck, D.L., Hollingsworth, J.S., 1996, Demographic and structural change: the effects of the 1980s on American society, Greenwood Publishing, ISBN 0313287449

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