Discuss How Trends in Mass Culture Developed in the 1950s

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Essay

Discuss how trends in mass culture developed in the 1950s, focusing especially on the rise of suburbia, television, and consumerism. Why were so many people attracted to mass culture? Was it a positive or negative development for American society? Why?

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