Suchergebnisse

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 paralysing 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 andpersonal narratives to analyse how this activism arose, its impact on people's personal and professional lives, and its transmission through familial generations.

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 affair -- Family 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 trajectories.