Disobedient Generation Social Theorists in the Sixties

Name: Disobedient Generation Social Theorists in the Sixties
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ISBN: 9780226756257

ISBN-10: 0226756254

ISBN-13: 9780226756257

Edition: 2005

Authors: Alan Sica, Stephen Turner

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The late 1960s are remembered today as the last time wholesale social upheaval shook Europe and the United States. College students during that tumultuous period—epitomized by the events of May 1968—were as permanently marked in their worldviews as their parents had been by the Depression and World War II. Sociology was at the center of these events, and it changed decisively because of them. The Disobedient Generation collects newly written autobiographies by an international cross-section of well-known sociologists, all of them "children of the '60s." It illuminates the human experience of living through that decade as apprentice scholars and activists, encountering the issues of class,…

Book details

List price: $37.00
Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 12/15/2005
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 336
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.80" tall
Weight: 1.298
Language: English

Elizabeth A. Kaye specializes in communications as part of her coaching and consulting practice. She has edited Requirements for Certification since the 2000-01 edition.



Preface



Introduction: What Has 1968 Come to Mean?



Losing Faith



The Sixties and Me: From Cultural Revolution to Cultural Theory



Antinomian Marxist



My Back Pages



That's Not Why I Went to School



The Sociology of Power and Justice: Coming of Age in the Sixties



Life in the Cold



Becoming a Sociologist in Italy



A Pragmatist from Germany



Culture of Life



Dionysus and the Ideals of 1968



From Switzerland to Sussex



Always a Foreigner, Always at Home



The Two Bodies of May 1968: In Common, in Person



The 1968 Student Revolts: The Expressive Revolution and Generational Politics



High on Insubordination



Ontological Disobedience - Definitely! (Maybe)



Falling into Marxism; Choosing to Stay