HIS 120 Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Karl Mannheim, Baby Boom, Wall
Document Summary
The fall of the wall 1989 and end of the cold war. Economic booming industrial west invited foreign guest workers for labor: baby boom generation (born after war) grew up in peace and prosperity tv, refrigerators, consumerism, public education. The beatles liverpool, working class youth phenomena, upbeat songs. Youth chaffed at social injustices and established elites (new left influence: vietnam war and status quo contributors not just repression that gives rise to social movements, beatles began singing about protest and revolution. Constructs of german and french character (fake) --- passed down generation to generation. Problems of generations people are influenced by the socio-historical context they grew up in shared experience for age cohorts: when this cohort comes to age, they shape societies based on their influences, world changes but their ideas don"t. The german case: most germans did not confront nazi past selective memory/truth (we were victims we didn"t know)
