America During This 1920s Period
During this 1920s period , America experienced cultural and behavioral as well as value change . For example , conflict historians who strongly believed that conflicts were the only thing that brought change in America . These historians tended to lay much emphasis on economic social as opposed to the intellectual conflicts in the history of America due to the influence they got from behavioral sciences like structural functional sociology though they were neither Marxists nor revolutionaries . Somehow this is what ushered in the culture of consumerism in America (Steele S , 1990
It is during this time that radios , telephones and not forgetting motion pictures that mass culture that linked Americans together that emerged . In America people started becoming more religious . In fact the number of Catholics who believed in life after death increased to 85 across those people born from 1900-1970 . This is why in the Tennessee s evolution case of 1925 Mr . Bryan strongly defends the bible teachings He believed that everything in the bible should be taken as it is though some things are given illustratively . For example the past that says that you are the salt of the earth , this does not mean that people are the actual salt that is used in cooking but it is used in the sense of good people helping others (Doc .C ) Scopes an old high school teacher who was alleged to have violated the law that banned the teaching of Darwin s theory of evolution
In the negro-artist and the racial mountain , Hughes sees jazz music as an external expression of what is going on inside a Negro s mind . That is the weariness in a white world pains , ridicule and hard work . He wants the young artist singing jazz music to change people s attitude of wishing they would be whites thorough his music and inculcate in then the culture of seeing themselves as beautiful . This happened to encourage the blacks who at that time were being harassed