The Disobedient Generation: Social Theorists in the Sixties

by Stephen P. Turner

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226756254
• ISBN13: 9780226756257
• Release Date: December 2005
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.4" x 9.0"