The Disobedient Generation: Social Theorists in the Sixties (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780226756257)

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.

Author: Alan Sica
ISBN-10: 0226756254
ISBN-13: 9780226756257
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Language: English
Published: 10/01/2005
Pages: 336
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.10lbs
Size: 8.96h x 6.38w x 0.81d

Review Citation(s):
Choice 12/01/2006 pg. 724
Books & Culture 11/01/2007 pg. 34