Affluent youth rebellion in the 1960s

Type :

Term papers

Pages :

11 pages

Format :

.doc

Published date :

03/05/2009

Category :

History & geography

Sub category :

Modern history

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Summary :

Introduction.
The students of these times.
1. Seeing the 'American values' they held so dear: Rhetoric being espoused by people.
2. New breed of the New Left.
The student rebellion of the 1960's.
The baby-boom generation.
The New Left movement: Implementing notions of socialism.
1. Students of the sixties: The Robin Hood of society.
2. Communists among the New Left group.
3. The rebellious youth of the 1960's.
Radicals in the universities.
The qualms that much of the student body had.
Conclusion.
Bibliography.

Abstract

The decade of the 1960s was a tumultuous time for universities and the students that occupied them. It was a time of changing values, gone were the days of the Old Communist Left of the decades prior, and arrived was the movement of the New Left. This New Left emerged in the wake of the war in Vietnam, tensions between the East and the West, growing understanding of the threats to the environment, the oppression of women and minorities, and arrogance and corruption within the political process. With this New Left movement came a new breed of university students, a breed different from its predecessors, this group had unprecedented privilege and had the freedom to assess the world, particularly their place in it, to a greater extent than anybody before them. Unlike their fathers who likely worked upwards of sixty hours a week or more, these students were privileged. This was also a student population that had grown immensely, and the university population was larger than it had ever been before. For the first time in history, university students were a large group, and a group that now had some influence and impact in society.