Interview notes

I interviewed my grandma who grew up in Brooklyn. She graduated in 1942.
topics: societal pressure inside and outside school
(grandma's views back then)
- total respect for teachers and peers
- punishment- sent home
- nobody ever tried anything unordinary
- hierarchical cliques
- religious pressures
- school was the biggest influence on style
- no long hair (shoulder length)
- success stemmed from being the most pretty and not the smartest
(grandma's views of the now)
- being an individual is the most important thing
- don't look bizarre
- use your own judgement
- advertising today influences
- iconoclast
(grandma's answer to: "what does conformity mean to you?")
-certain opinions, morals and values that you are able to stand up for yourself for
- don't conform to conform
- conform if it was the right thing to do (why not?)
- no mob rule
- ex. lynch
(quotes)
- "when the whole world is turning into something you sometimes feel you have to also"
- "felt so privileged"
- "the elite"
- "getting on the band wagon"