Students Movement:
- Counterculture
→ Opposite of the older generation
- “the establishment” – authority figures
→ Parents and the government
What did the students want:
- A more tolerant and fair society
- Bigger role in society with new opportunities
- Challenged the structures of authority
→ civil protests
→ university campuses
Education System:
- More academic freedom on university campuses
→ protested against the archaic, bureaucratic way in which the
universities were run.
Parents:
- Attitudes and values of the conventional system
- They challenged their parent’s ideas
→ dress, religion, politics, sex, music
Government in power:
- Used force to end protests
→ this was undemocratic
Participated in major civil society movements of the 60’s:
- Protested universities
- Civil war
- Vietnam war
- No nuclear weapons
Counterculture:
- Anti-establishment
- Did not trust authorities
- Experimentation with drugs
- Counterculture
→ Opposite of the older generation
- “the establishment” – authority figures
→ Parents and the government
What did the students want:
- A more tolerant and fair society
- Bigger role in society with new opportunities
- Challenged the structures of authority
→ civil protests
→ university campuses
Education System:
- More academic freedom on university campuses
→ protested against the archaic, bureaucratic way in which the
universities were run.
Parents:
- Attitudes and values of the conventional system
- They challenged their parent’s ideas
→ dress, religion, politics, sex, music
Government in power:
- Used force to end protests
→ this was undemocratic
Participated in major civil society movements of the 60’s:
- Protested universities
- Civil war
- Vietnam war
- No nuclear weapons
Counterculture:
- Anti-establishment
- Did not trust authorities
- Experimentation with drugs
