Quiz
Five will open on February 21 and closes at 12:30 on Monday February
25. You will have only one chance to take this quiz, please study
the material in advance. Quiz Five is open in Social Movements.
This time I gave you 40
minutes, so the latest you can start
is 12:30 on Monday. You should
study the powerpoint on Trends in American Society and the chapters in
Turncoats and True Believers. Many of the questions refer to the
names
of individuals discussed in the assigned reading in Turncoats which we
have not yet discussed in class.
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Required Reading:
- Powerpoint on Trends in American Society (in SAKAI) - for a
fuller explanation of some of the theories see Ted Goertzel, "Generational Cycles in American
History"
- Generations
(book by Strauss and Howe) Wikipedia. - focus on
the generations since the G.I. Generation
- Ted Goertzel, Turncoats and True Believers, Chapter Eleven.
In Sakai folder for Week Five.
- Ted Goertzel, Turncoats and True Believers, Chapter Six, Section
on Ayn Rand and Objectivism. In Sakai Folder for Week Five.
Pages 137-143 in the printed book, pages 17-25 in the manuscript.
- Introduction to Millennial Makeover. In
SAKAI/Resources/WeekFive
- Morley Winograd, A
New Generation Portends Political Upheaval. Philadelphia
Inquirer, Feb 8, 2008
Links, Supplemental Readings and Notes:
- Shooting
at Northern Illinois University as a media event.
- New
York Times Trends Article.
- Newsweek: 1968,
the year that changed everything.
- Eco-Moms:
Saving the Earth Begins at Home
- Ted Goertzel, "Generational Cycles in American
History"
- SDS
- YAF
Wikipedia
- Port
Huron Statement. - The Sharon Statement
- Generations
(book by Strauss and Howe) Wikipedia.
- Powerpoint Presentation on "9/11 as a Turning Point
in History"
- Pew Research Report, "Trends in
Political Values and Core Attitudes"
- Ayn
Rand Video. Yippie
Video. Dan
Rather punched in the stomach. Confrontations
in the Street. Phil
Ochs.
- Gun
Control issue on College Campuses in the wake of the Northern
Illinois shooting.
- Ackmed:
The Dead Terrorist - courtest of David Sigwart
- A streaming
video summary of a
paper applying generational theory to the 2000 Presidential
elections
is available (requires Real
Player).
- Theodora Stites, "Someone
to Watch Over Me (On a Google Map)." A slightly longer and
more recent version in pdf format is in Sakai/resources/week five with
the title RockMyNetwork.pdf.
In the book
RAMPAGE:
The Social Roots of School Shootings, Katherine Newman offers the
following
"necessary but not
sufficient conditions for rampage school shootings:
- The shooter's perception of himself as extremely marginal in the
social worlds that matter to him.
- School shooters must suffer from psychosocial problems that
magnify the impact of marginality.
- "Cultural scripts," - a prescription for behavior - must be
available to lead the way toward an armed attack. The shooter
must believe that unleashing an attack on teachers and classmates will
resolve his dilemma. When we see films featuring macho heroes or
villains who shoot their way to greater notoreity, we are looking at
the
traces of a cultural script that links manhood andpublic respect with
violence.
- The failure of surveillance systems that are intended to identify
troubled teens before their problems become extreme.
- Gun availability, the ease with which young men can put their
hands on guns.
Her book is based on a study of shootings in high school, especially
the Columbine Massacre on April 20, 1999. More recently, we have
had shootings at universities, including
Northern
Illinois University last week and Virginia Tech last
semester. How do these fit her theory? These college
students seem to be more isolated, less a part of a school culture than
high school students. There is clearly a script here, not one
tied to any ideological or political or religious goal, just personal
frustration. There is no social movement in the US that recruits
these individuals and uses them politically, as jihadist movements do.