Conclusion

Question 1

Conclusion

Answer 1

The 60’s began with the election of the first president born in the 20th century. A time of innocence and hope soon began to look like a time of anger and violence (Kennedy was assassinated in ’63). More Americans protested to demand an end to unfair treatments (and full equality on the other hand) or to the war in Vietnam… As Roszak explains:

“In a sense, the true political radicalism of our day begins with a vivid realization of how much in the way of high principle, free expression, justice, reason, and humane intention the technocratic order can adapt to the purpose of entrenching itself ever more deeply in the uncoerced allegiance of men. This is the sort of insight our angriest dissenters tend to miss when, in the course of heroic confrontation, they open themselves to the most obvious kinds of police and military violence” (p. 266-267).

Question 2

Cultural Studies

Answer 2

Just because cultural studies is practically impossible to define, it does not mean that anything can be cultural studies or cultural studies can bejust anything.

Cultural studies aims to examine its subject matter in terms of cultural practices and their relation to power.

Cultural studies is not simply the study of culture as though it was a discrete entity divorced from its social or political context. Its objective is to understand culture in all its complex forms and to analyse the social and political context within which it manifests itself.

Question 3

60s

Answer 3

The multicultural aspect of society generated various movements in the 60s

Black Power
Black Panthers
American Indian Movement (AIM)
The Chicano movement
Not to mention other social movements:
The hippie movement
The student movement
Gay liberation / Gay rights
Women’s rights
Civil rights movement
Anti-Vietnam war movements
Just to mention a few…