The Social Climate Of The 1950s The 20th Century Study

Social ethos is complicated representation of social moral, value tropism, social custom and atmosphere prevailing among the members of society, which exists in the historic age and converted with social development, meanwhile which is limited by social institution and ideology. Social ethos demonstrates the set of idea and moral attitudes to the social persons. It reflects the unique social economy, politics and culture of a historic era and connects tightly with those elements.It impacted on the ethos that political atmosphere, economic system and culture field in the People's Republic of China in the 1950s, which represented the distinct epochal characters. In the first decade of latter half of the twentieth century, social ethos showed a tremendous change. The alteration of ethos could be observed clearly in social ideology and behavior. In one respect, its phenomenon included that the transformation of the married principle, the occurrence of common concept that "work is glorious, and exploit is shameful", a yearning to socialism, the making of politics as the most important affair and the fashion for morality of socialism; the other respect, its included that extinguishing prostitution, drug and gambling, protecting against being illegal, implementing new ceremony for marriage or funeral, choosing the living manner of socialism and practicing for morality of socialism. In that decade, the ethos was strained to the social environment, and reflected the political forces' views and ideas. Furthermore, it appeared with pan-politic state. The positive, noble and ambitious spirit emerged in China in the first seven years of the 1950s, but the situation changed and went to the contrary side following the abnormal conversion in people mental consciousness, social action and value tropism in 1957, which did harm in normal social movement and development in the rest of 1950s.