<P> `` The Sixties '' , as they are known in both scholarship and popular culture , is a term used by historians , journalists , and other objective academics ; in some cases nostalgically to describe the counterculture and revolution in social norms about clothing , music , drugs , dress , sexuality , formalities , and schooling ; and in others pejoratively to denounce the decade as one of irresponsible excess , flamboyance , and decay of social order . The decade was also labeled the Swinging Sixties because of the fall or relaxation of social taboos especially relating to racism and sexism that occurred during this time . Commentator Christopher Booker described this era as a classical Jungian nightmare cycle , where a rigid culture , unable to contain the demands for greater individual freedom , broke free of the social constraints of the previous age through extreme deviation from the norm . He charts the rise , success , fall / nightmare and explosion in the London scene of the 1960s . Several Western nations such as the United States , United Kingdom , France , and West Germany turned to the political left in the early and mid-1960s . </P>
<P> `` The Sixties '' , as they are known in both scholarship and popular culture , is a term used by historians , journalists , and other objective academics ; in some cases nostalgically to describe the counterculture and revolution in social norms about clothing , music , drugs , dress , sexuality , formalities , and schooling ; and in others pejoratively to denounce the decade as one of irresponsible excess , flamboyance , and decay of social order . The decade was also labeled the Swinging Sixties because of the fall or relaxation of social taboos especially relating to racism and sexism that occurred during this time . Commentator Christopher Booker described this era as a classical Jungian nightmare cycle , where a rigid culture , unable to contain the demands for greater individual freedom , broke free of the social constraints of the previous age through extreme deviation from the norm . He charts the rise , success , fall / nightmare and explosion in the London scene of the 1960s . Several Western nations such as the United States , United Kingdom , France , and West Germany turned to the political left in the early and mid-1960s . </P>
what was the social climate during the mid 1960s
what was the social climate during the mid 1960s
`` The Sixties '' , as they are known in both scholarship and popular culture , is a term used by historians , journalists , and other objective academics ; in some cases nostalgically to describe the counterculture and revolution in social norms about clothing , music , drugs , dress , sexuality , formalities , and schooling ; and in others pejoratively to denounce the decade as one of irresponsible excess , flamboyance , and decay of social order . The decade was also labeled the Swinging Sixties because of the fall or relaxation of social taboos especially relating to racism and sexism that occurred during this time
`` The Sixties '' , as they are known in both scholarship and popular culture , is a term used by historians , journalists , and other objective academics ; in some cases nostalgically to describe the counterculture and revolution in social norms about clothing , music , drugs , dress , sexuality , formalities , and schooling ; and in others pejoratively to denounce the decade as one of irresponsible excess , flamboyance , and decay of social order . The decade was also labeled the Swinging Sixties because of the fall or relaxation of social taboos especially relating to racism and sexism that occurred during this time