The Disobedient Generation: Social Theorists in the SixtiesAlan Sica, Stephen P. Turner 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, race, the Establishment, the decline of traditional religion, feminism, war, and the sexual revolution. In each case the interlinked crises of young adulthood, rapid change, and nascent professional careers shaped this generation's private and public selves. This is an intensely personal collective portrait of a generation in a time of struggle. |
Contents
What Has 1968 Come to Mean? | 1 |
Losing Faith | 21 |
From Cultural Revolution to Cultural Theory | 37 |
Antinomian Marxist | 48 |
My Back Pages | 72 |
Thats Not Why I Went to School | 94 |
Coming of Age in the Sixties | 114 |
Life in the Cold | 129 |
Dionysus and the Ideals of 1968 | 196 |
From Switzerland to Sussex | 205 |
Always a Foreigner Always at Home | 221 |
In Common in Person | 252 |
The Expressive Revolutionand Generational Politics | 272 |
High on Insubordination | 285 |
Ontological DisobedienceDefinitely Maybe | 309 |
Falling into Marxism Choosing to Stay | 325 |
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