- Subcultures opposed to established society were developing e.g.: Mods, Rockers, Teddy Boys.
- Emergence of youth culture.
- An outburst of individualism.
- Greater freedoms in fashion and self-expression.
- Technological advances - TVs, Cars, Air travel etc.
- Growth of "world news" and international media images.
- Greater affluence and availability of credit.
- Improvements in material life and the "consumer society."
- Upheavals in immigration and class.
- Sexual liberation - the pill was available for the first time, homosexuality was legalised, first explicit book was published.
- There was changes in where people lived and transport systems.
- Major changes in education and secondary school development.
- "Conservative backlash" from the older generation.
No
- Social change ebbs and flows - society is always changing.
- Social change in the 1960's didn't effect everyone - depended on age, class and region of living.
- The changes didn't last.
- Middle classes instigated a backlash at the changes made - "class system was dented, but not broken."
- Most people resisted a lot of the changes.
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