Abstract

ALEXANDER, Jeffrey C.. The Sixties and Me: From Cultural Revolution to Cultural Theory. Rev. mex. cienc. polít. soc [online]. 2018, vol.63, n.234, pp.99-110. ISSN 0185-1918.  https://doi.org/10.22201/fcpys.2448492xe.2018.234.65718.

In this article, the author offers an approach to his personal and academic development during the 1960s and how they laid the foundations for his contributions in the field of sociology. Pointing out those years as a moment in which a tumultuous social conscience, strongly influenced by the New Left, broke with the static rationalization of modernity, the author analyzes his radicalization in Marxism during his student years at Harvard and his eventual distancing from it. He also explores how the Vietnam war and specific events of the time shaped an entire generation, through pointing to the possible existence of alternative social orders.

Keywords : May 1968; 60s’ generation; Sociology in the 1960s; New Left; cultural theory.