Silver 70s - OUCA401

Silver 70s 

Social-1971 - subculture (punk) popularised- Music - Sex Pistols
-Subculture: style ‘offends the silent majority’
-Reflected the attitude of youth movement towards a system that offered ‘no future’
-DIY culture

Theory
-Marxist perspective popular
-Panopticism – how power works

 Advertising Architecture
- Rejected modernist architecture- New approach inspired by Las Vegas Strip full of advertising
-Po Mo – architecture as communication.
 
Economic
-1972 above 1 million 1st time since 30s.
-Union Strikes
-UK joins EEC (EU) - 1973
-1973 – 1974 Stock Market Crash-Recession

  Political
-National Women’s Liberation Movement-100s conferences resulted in legislation
-1970 Equal Pay Act Specifying equal pay for equal work.
-Thatcher 1979