"yuppie Culture" And Its Return, The U.s. Mainstream Culture

In historical development perpetual flow, the American culture presented the multiplication and the complex disposition staggered aspect. The postwar-birth-peak birth generation of person has manifested this characteristic. In noisy 60's, they initiated rebellious "Counter-Culture" movement, with the challenge to the dominant culture of America. But to the 80's, the Americansociety appeared another cultural current which leaded by the young people------"the Yuppies Culture", reapproving the values of dominant society. The researching subject of the paper is precisely "the Yuppies Culture" as well as return of "the Yuppies Culture" to the American dominant culture.The whole thesis includes three chapters. The first chapter mainly exponds the main characteristic of "Yuppies Culture", including the pursue matter, diligently working, seeking psychological balance between the inner and the material world, positively participate in the political life and so on. Compares with "The Hippie Culture" in the 60's, "the yuppies culture" appears even more close to the tradition and emphasizes the reality. The second chapter analyzes the main reason why "the Yuppies Culture" forms. The appearance of "The Yuppies Culture" is not the accidental social phenomenon, and it is the product of the hit between the huge chang of aspects such as economy, society, politics, culture and people's ideology and the value criterion in 60 to 80's . The third chapter of thesis mainly exponds relations between "The Yuppies Culture" and American dominant culture. Compares with American traditional culture, "The Yuppies Culture" maintains the uniformity at many aspects. Yuppies' behavior ways and life styles are correspondent with the dominant society. In other words, "the Yuppies Culture" is a kind of natural return to the dominant society of America. For all this, "the Yuppies Culture" also has different places with traditional American culture. "The Yuppies" walk even further in certain aspects than their father's generation------traditional American."The Yuppies Culture" holds the important status in American modern...