SOCIOL 4SS3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 22: Vietnam War, New Left, Korean War
Document Summary
The play of meaning and memory around the vietnam war is complex and contested. Cultural sociology to bring unconscious cultural structures that regular society into the light of the mind. The vietnam trope is a culture structure of a salient and enduring discursive complex which repressed still unresolved tensions and creates the functional parameters for a particular debate. The true stakes of histories of the vietnam war are a political question that transcends the academe and holds universal global importance: the role of military power in the world. Rise and decline of vietnam trope marks its historical specify. It is a generational cultural structure that organized debates on us military power in post. The war and its repercussions helped break down the post war war ii fordist world order whereas. Links tropes and hegemony in an attempt to. Hegemony is not a synonym for class domination.