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May '68 : shaping political generations /
Much as in other locations around the world, civil uprising, particularly rooted in the activism of young people and students, plagued France during May of 1968. Massive strikes and occupations succeeded in paralyzing France?s economy and bringing the country to the verge of a leftist revolution. Th...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés Francés |
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Amsterdam :
Amsterdam University Press,
[2018]
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| Colección: | Protest and social movements.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Table of contents; Acknowledgements; List of acronyms and political organisations; Introduction; The autobiographical origins of my research; Partially unsatisfying representations of May '68; The biographical consequences of activism in May '68; Generating the 'generations of '68'; Political socialisation and events; A sociology of post-'68 trajectories; History of the study; A specific and controllable corpus; Recruiting participants ... ; Articulating statistics and life histories; 1 The roots of participation in May '68; The matrices of participation in May '68
- Politics and religion: a family affairFamily transmission of dispositions towards activism; The politicisation of religious commitments; The transformations of conditions for students and women; When upward social mobility makes activists; When personal crises resonate with political crises; Conclusion; 2 Shaping the event: Socialisation effects and registers of participation; May '68: the same event for everyone?; Different reactions to the study reveal different representations of the events; A statistical analysis of the forms of participation in May '68?
- How did the event influence the participants?Socialisation by reinforcement and socialisation by maintenance; Socialisation by awareness-raising and by conversion; Improbable encounters, emotions, and politicisation; Conclusion; 3 The long-term consequences of May '68; The social space of '68ers' destinies; The political event as a trigger for activism; Trajectories inflected by participation in May '68; Generational impact forty years later; Comparing political destinies; Activists today: a generation effect?; Conclusion; 4 Working to avoid social reproduction
- Students in factories and workers in universities: inversed trajectoriesBecoming an établi to "go among the masses"; Workers at university: Gilles, from postal worker to professor; Socially improbable encounters "overlooked"; Activism through popular education; François, revolution through popular education; Louis: community work through formal qualifications; 1972: The confrontation between militant approaches to community work and official qualifications; 1975-1983: the golden days of the popular education revolution; 1980s: professionalization and disenchantment
- The 1990s: re-enchantment and professional evolutionConclusion: activism and social mobility; 5 Changing one's life to change the world? The politicisation of the private sphere; Politicising the private sphere; Family: I hate you!; Marital breakdowns: a consequence of May '68?; Turning to psychoanalysis: a therapy for fractured habitus?; Redefining the role of parents; Anne: remaining faithful to the break; 1949-1968: the baby boom blues; 1970-1974: Maoism, becoming an établi, theatre, communal living and motherhood; Sparking a peasant revolt: from disillusion to disillusion