SOC 202 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Drug Scenes, Anti-Globalization Movement, Bill Grundy

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Counterculture is a term first associated with the 1960s and early 1970s. Recently, the term has been used to describe the anti-apartheid uprising of the 1980s and anti-globalization movements of the 1990s. In its most militant aspect, the counterculture movement of the 1960s and 1970s was large and consisted of groups such as students for a democratic society as well as splinter groups such as the anarchist weathermen. The weathermen (aka the weather underground) bombed government buildings and banks in retaliation against such offenses as the american invasion of laos and the bombing of hanoi. Other groups, in the women"s liberation, gay rights and civil rights movements, were loosely affiliated to the political wing of the counterculture but focused their campaigning on more specific and eventually, more enduring themes of sexual and racial oppression. Many groups drew inspiration from the philosophy of situationism, a political and artistic movement, whose followers proclaimed the more you consume, the less you live.

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