During the 1950s and early 1960s, various American intellectuals offered critical analyses of what they perceived as the social conformity and political
disengagement that characterized the era. Drawing upon the assigned readings by Merle Miller, David Riesman, Irving Howe, and William Whyte, write an
essay that examines these authors’ ideas about mass society during the prosperous years that followed the Second World War. What aspects of American
society, culture, and politics did these thinkers find to be conformist? How did they explain conformity? What alternatives to the conformist aspects of mass
society did they advocate?
Only use these sources in files. No outside sources can be used.