| The Disobedient Generation: Social Theorists in the Sixties Contributor(s): Sica, Alan (Editor), Turner, Stephen (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0226756246 ISBN-13: 9780226756240 Publisher: University of Chicago Press OUR PRICE: $98.01 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: October 2005 Annotation: 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. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | Social History - History | United States - 20th Century |
| Dewey: B |
| LCCN: 2005008511 |
| Physical Information: 1.03" H x 6.38" W x 9.26" (1.34 lbs) 336 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 1960's - Chronological Period - 20th Century |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |