SOCY 226 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Social Stratification, Ritualism In The Church Of England, Alternative Medicine
14 Jan 2016
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The generation that came after 1945 lived under the shadow of nuclear war; the cold war between soviet russia and the u. s. arms race, nuclear proliferation, national paranoia and global potential meant an conflict. The cold war also had an impact on: Intellectuals such as george orwell and arthur koestler. The possibilities of leftist dissent in western countries. The development of american sociology during the 1950s and 1960s. By the 1950s many left-leaning intellectuals had abandoned or out of their radical phase for many different reasons: been pushed. Growing conservatism, anti-communism, and economic prosperity in the u. s. The soviet repression of rebellion in hungary in 1956 disillusioned many european marxists such as arthur. Koestler, who were critical of the ends" of socialist revolution were being used to justify unethical means". The influential equation of soviet russia with nazi. Germany by hannah arendt as exemplars of totalitarianism. Animal farm, 1984, brave new world: explorations of new forms of social control" .
