This seminar paper briefly explores the historiography of 1950s american cold war culture with a particular emphasis on social history. A working father a stay at home mother little susie and billy gettin b s at school and the. The nuclear family was the all american dream of the 50s.
The nuclear family refers to a family with constant meltdowns typical western family consisting of a father figure and a mother figure of the male and female genders respectively and a couple of little kids at least 2 running around. Take over the suburbs. Lack for conformity commentators views on the suburban single family house standardized houses standardized furniture uninteresting communities boring middle class neighbors the suburbs.
The nuclear family in the 1950 s the suburbs. The rise of consumer culture in the same period driven by an economic boom a population surge and suburban. The threat of invasion and subversion in the cold war era led americans to seek consensus and conformity in politics and in culture.
Dinner with the nuclear family 1950 a spotlight on a primary source by encyclopedia britannica films. Nuclear family is used interchangeably with elementary family. Mom is in the kitchen cooking dad works all day to support his family and the kids are building a treehouse or playing baseball in the backyard.
When many people think of the term nuclear family they envision a glamorized lifestyle reminiscent of the 1950s and 1960s. There are differences in definition among observers some. It is in contrast to a single parent family the larger extended family or a family with more than two parents nuclear families typically center on a married couple which may have any number of children.
A nuclear family elementary family or conjugal family is a family group consisting of two parents and their children one or more.
