SOCY 122 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: In Loco Parentis, Hazing, The Beach Boys

• School: Queen's University
• Department: Social Sci, Edu and Soc Work - Sociology
• Course: SOCY 122
• Professor: Rob Beamish

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Sociology notes week 23: student movement was a revolt of privilege against privilege for privilege in a society in which the character of privilege had been changing. Kids had grown up with a sense of options that nobody else in: student movement was shaped by a broader social structure of the us, the world had ever had before. Also shaped by american civil rights movement, anti-vietnam. Condemned privilege based on material advantage and sought to establish democracy freed from power attached to wealth. Students criticized defense of privilege because it meant the sacrifice of powerless majority in interest of powerful few. Decried the loos of genuine humanity in a world that: key document port huron statement worshiped material possessions. Sampling of port huron statement: two most permeating events: The permeating and victimizing fact of human degradation . Enclosing fact of the cold war symbolized by the presence of the bomb brought awareness: paradoxes: