SOCY 226 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Ritualism In The Church Of England, White-Collar Crime, Reference Group

• School: Queen's University
• Department: Social Sci, Edu and Soc Work - Sociology
• Course: SOCY 226
• Professor: Ryan Martin

Document Summary

The generation that came after 1945 lived under the shadow of potential nuclear war; the cold war between soviet russia and the u. s. meant an arms race, nuclear proliferation, national propaganda and global conflict. A particular image of us society was meant to look as far away from the soviet society as possible. The cold war had an impact on. Intellectuals such as george orwell and arthur koestler. The possibility"s of leftist dissent in western countries. The development of american sociology during the 1950"s and 1960"s. The the 1950"s many left leaning intellectuals had abandoned or been pushed out of their radical phase for many different reasons: Growing conservatism, anti-communism, and economic prosperity in the u. s. The soviet repression of rebellion in hungary in 1956 disillusion many europeans. Marxists such as arthur koestler, who were critical of the ends of socialist revolution were being used to justify unethical means .