"Originally published as Mai 68, un pave dans leur histoire (2014)"--Title page verso Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Conclusion. Partially unsatisfying representations of May '68 -- biographical consequences of activism in May '68 -- Generating the `generations of '68' -- Political socialisation and events -- sociology of post-'68 trajectories -- History of the study -- specific and controllable corpus -- Recruiting participants -- Articulating statistics and life histories -- 7. roots of participation in May '68 -- matrices of participation in May '68 -- Politics and religion: a family affair -- Family transmission of dispositions towards activism -- politicisation of religious commitments -- 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 -- 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 politicization -- Conclusion -- 3. long-term consequences of May '68 -- social space of `68ers' destinies -- 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 trajectories -- Becoming an etabli to "go among the masses" -- Workers at university: Gilles, from postal worker to professor -- Socially improbable encounters "overlooked" -- Activism through popular education -- Francois, 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 -- 1990s: re-enchantment and professional evolution -- Conclusion: 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 etabli, theatre, communal living and motherhood -- Sparking a peasant revolt: from disillusion to disillusion -- 1973-1975: communes, LSD, depart for New York, feminism -- 1975-1980: journalism, squats and psychoanalysis: slowly climbing out of the margins -- 1982-1986: reintegration through journalism -- 1986-2008: perpetuating the openness of possibilities -- in spite of everything -- Conclusion -- 6. Micro-units of Generation '68 -- Social conditions for the identification with "generation '68" -- Men shaped 1968, but women were shaped by 1968? Gendered generations -- Feminists from left-wing middle classes, politicised with the Vietnam War -- Depressed and downwardly mobile single women -- What became of the '68ers: a range of futures -- First generational unit: The importance of the Algerian War among the eldest interviewees -- Second-generational unit: Earning their stripes against the Vietnam War -- Third generational unit: Interviewees politicised with May '68 -- Conclusion -- 7. ricochet effect on the next generation? -- Strong family political transmission -- Different inheritors, different profiles -- dissocialised generation -- Dealing with dissocialisation -- social space of the second generation -- Transmission of activism: intergenerational (dis)continuities? -- (Re)inventing anti-authoritarian activism -- Inheriting the need to make sense of one's life through activism -- Conclusion.
Summary:
"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. This book studies the life trajectories of many ordinary protestors during the period, using statistics and personal narratives to analyze how this activism arose, its impact on people?s personal and professional lives, and its transmission through familial generations."--Page 4 of cover
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