SOC244H5 Study Guide - Quiz Guide: Ideal Speech Situation, John Kenneth Galbraith, World-Systems Theory
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60s many things occurred, such as kennedy assassination, civil rights movement, the black power revolts etc. The united states was the center of the world during this time. Will the center hold this line was taken from william butler yeats, the second coming . To many people american seemed to be the truth. The failure of the us in vietnam and collapse of european colonial system introducted the opec. People said, we had to destroy it to save it when they were talking about vietnam. Organization of petroleum exporting countries this was the oil crisis. The world lost the united states as the center. Rise of black power in 1966 women were seen as a threat to men and men didn t want them to rise in power. The government, family and university became vectors of discontent intersecting where the center could have been.
