Consumer Culture: Describes how radio, advertising, automobiles, and movies effected the consumer culture of the 1920's

Consumer Culture The Twenties was a time of great social change for America. Woman had been given the right to vote, selling alcoholic beverages was illegal, and agrarian people were moving to the cities. While these social changes were taking place, economic change also began to take hold. Increasingly, men were working in factories--in jobs that required little or no skill. Work was repetitious, boring, and unfulfilling for most Americans, yet because most were experiencing …

…to homogenize and, ultimately, change American culture. This cultural change was also contributed to by the automobile. In the end, these products made the United States a nation of consumers, and they began to change the way Americans thought, the music they listened to, and clothes they wore. In this sense, the consumer culture did not just affect America economically; rather, it contributed to social and moral changes that would continue to gain momentum, indefinitely.