Consider the current youth popular culture compared to "Berkeley in the Sixties." What movements do you have in your youth culture? How are you a part of your youth culture?
Movements that were popular in the 1960's...
hmm... free speech? anti-war? rock music being taken too seriously?
current movements.
i'm stumped. what are we considering a movement?
music being taken too seriously?
even after reading chapter 7, i need definitions clarified. because we skipped several chapters, when Jacoby uses terms such as "counter culture" and "counter counter-culture" (or however she puts those three words together), i am left with a void which, due to my laziness, i can't fill. do i really want to go back and read 100 pages? no. let's be honest. but what in the world is she talking about?
youth pop culture today? i think it is difficult to say what it is today because we are in the thick of it. it is much easier to define movements, or anything else, in retrospect. hindsight is 20/20. i would say that i have given in to fashion and labeling as much as any other roseville or granite bay inhabitant, although i live in loomis. i enjoy music, but i don't really care about it. it is more a background noise than a passion. i like politics. i think it takes a well read person to really have a stance on anything. i am a fairly moderate, left tendancy thinker, and on the right topic i am able to become very passionate. is that a movement?
wikipedia. movement: Social movements are a type of group action. They are large informal groupings of individuals and/or organizations focused on specific political or social issues, in other words, on carrying out, resisting or undoing a social change.
collective challenges [to elites, authorities, other groups or cultural codes] by people with common purposes and solidarity in sustained interactions with elites, opponents and authorities
what collective challenges has my generation faced? crappy presidents, good presidents, morally unstable presidents. pants that ride to high, pants that ride to low. new classes, or new termed classes of cliques. the 'emo' the 'goth'. aren't those movements? they seem beatnik-ish to me. props to jack kerouac.
i think i need to sleep on what movements i am a part of. i have never burned a flag, or joined a rally. i am fairly soft spoken and i try to keep to myself, unless i am comfortable in my surroundings... then i am sassy and sarcastic to a fault.
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