Explain the expanded role of advertising and consumer credit. why can it be said that the prosperity of the 1950s and 1960s was substantially consumer-driven?

It influenced consumer spending.  This encouraged people to go out and buy more products that they wanted.  Due to the postwar economic prosperity, many Americans had extra money to spend.  As a result producers launched a massive advertising campaign to encourage consumers to buy more.

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affirmative action refers to the policies that take gender, race, or ethnicity into account in order to promote equal opportunity.

employers subject to title vii are prohibited from taking race or sex into account in any employment decisions. aa is a penalty for having any job group substantially statistically "underutilized" in any race or either sex. the employer must take steps to eliminate the underutilization, then stop, ending its aa efforts