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Professor Kim Voss SOC 280S: Social Movements
Malte Nyfos Mathiasen (maltenyfos@berkeley.edu) May 15, 14
	
  
	
  
The	
  60s	
  Generation’s	
  Life	
  Course	
  of	
  
Political	
  Participation	
  in	
  Denmark	
  
Prospectus	
  for	
  a	
  research	
  project.	
  	
  
I would be happy to receive any comments that could help me in the process.
Professor Kim Voss SOC 280S: Social Movements
Malte Nyfos Mathiasen (maltenyfos@berkeley.edu) May 15, 14
	
  
	
  
Table	
  of	
  Contents	
  
Research	
  question	
  ......................................................................................................................	
  3	
  
Context	
  .........................................................................................................................................................	
  5	
  
Literature	
  review	
  and	
  theoretical	
  framework	
  .................................................................	
  6	
  
Culture	
  .........................................................................................................................................................	
  6	
  
Generation	
  ..................................................................................................................................................	
  8	
  
Activism	
  .......................................................................................................................................................	
  9	
  
Research	
  design	
  .......................................................................................................................	
  10	
  
Storytelling	
  and	
  life	
  courses	
  as	
  a	
  method	
  ...................................................................................	
  11	
  
Data	
  .............................................................................................................................................................	
  12	
  
Comparison	
  and	
  measurement	
  .......................................................................................................	
  13	
  
Expected	
  findings	
  and	
  arguments	
  ..................................................................................................	
  13	
  
Literature	
  ...................................................................................................................................	
  15	
  
	
  
	
   	
  
Professor Kim Voss SOC 280S: Social Movements
Malte Nyfos Mathiasen (maltenyfos@berkeley.edu) May 15, 14
Research	
  question	
  
In Denmark when the talk is about social movements and change, the refer-
ence point always seems to be the 68’ers generation and the happy but childish life of
the hippies. The concept of generations is in many accounts continuously used to cat-
egorize the 60s and early 70s, where the baby boomers as the first generation after
WW2 have been classified as a qualitative different generation or even the first youth
generation. Illustratively, many scholars of New Social Movements have celebrated
Inglehardt’s claim that the post WW2 western generations were less materialistic and
more idealistic and cultural, because they never experienced material sufferings and
hunger (Inglehardt, 1971). At the same time I believe one can fairly say that the dis-
cursive power of “generation” is more powerful in some countries rather than in oth-
ers, and in Denmark the concept of the ‘generation’ is often reified, as new emerging
groups of youth claim an identity, and older voices outcry over state of affairs in pub-
lic media.
As a side note I believe that an examination of the ‘68’ers could create re-
newed interest and parallels to the arguably lack of activism today. I therefore set out
to ask a research question, which can be answered through a thick contextualization
of a movement:
How did the activists in the ‘68’ers Generation and the University of Copen-
hagen evolve their values and diffuse into other movements over their life
course?
The relationship under investigation implies to compare the specificity of the
activist in the movement over a long period with non-activist at the same time. Also
the activists of the ‘68’ers Generation and the student revolt in ‘68’ overlap but ana-
lytically needs to be disentangled.
The research design is very open, and I have no elaborate thesis on, what the
results will look like. I have some prior indications that the population in Denmark at
large tends to have quite consistent values over time, especially on a left-to-right po-
litical scale (Gundelach, 2011). I am therefore very eager to find out, if the sample of
activist in the ‘68’ers Generation at the University of Copenhagen diverges profound-
ly, and if they tend to have larger social and sustained (activist) networks, earn less
Professor Kim Voss SOC 280S: Social Movements
Malte Nyfos Mathiasen (maltenyfos@berkeley.edu) May 15, 14
(or more), maintain a leftist political attitude and continuously organize movements,
as they become older.
Until today there exist no sociological or systematic account on the ‘68’ers
Generation, though there is much written by popular media and historians depicting
the ‘68’ers in the period from 1962-82 or 1945-89 (Scandinavian Journal of History,
33(4), 2008; Gildea et al., 2013; Stewart, 2014). The problem I see with the current
historical accounts are that they put to much emphasis on individuals, single events
and a cohesive narrative of decay without telling how the activists integrated and in-
fused other institutions with their values. No doubt it was a decisive period in Danish
history both culturally and institutional, where the welfare state and student numbers
expanded and even a new university was created to address the demand of the time
and the students. Thus, I believe, there is a dual purpose of the research project. First-
ly, to examine the life course of activist with explanatory interviews and very accurate
micro data and secondly, to inform a very contested dispute over the significance of
the ‘68ers Generation, before the activists die, and the data disappears. As one of the
activist at the 1964 Free Speech Movement at Berkeley recalled at the 40 year com-
memoration, for the students of today, the 60s are as far a past, as the WWI was for
them.
The ‘68’ers Generation is a very prominent case of activism in Denmark and,
therefore comparable to the Civil Rights Movement in the U.S., a natural reference
point and an opportunity to disseminate and test the social movement literature in a
Danish context. But it is also relevant, because the historical path can set landmarks
for repertoires and contestation for future activists and social movement organiza-
tions.
	
   	
  
Professor Kim Voss SOC 280S: Social Movements
Malte Nyfos Mathiasen (maltenyfos@berkeley.edu) May 15, 14
Context	
  
	
  
The Danish Student revolt developed from the Institute of Psychology at the
University of Copenhagen in 19'. The students were inspired by events in Germany,
France, a bit of Italy and the U.S., but events only happened in the capital city of Co-
penhagen and not in the three other largest cities of Denmark. I will investigate why
none events happened in the other cities and universities. For this purpose I will ex-
amine records at Aarhus University, which is the second largest city and conducts the
most similar history as Copenhagen. In Copenhagen the activism was relatively short
and lasted for some months. It later returned in 1970 but did not have the same suc-
cess and impact. Their main objective was to increase participation and influence at
the university and diminish the importance of professors and management. In this re-
gard they generally succeeded and have had a large impact, until some recent setbacks
in democratic student governance from 2001 It has often been related to prior event,
such as the youth rebellion in the 60s, the collective movement, anti-nuclear move-
ments, anti-war movement emerging from the Vietnam war
Even Thylejren and Roskilde festival (the largest Northern European Musical
festival), have since 1972 had camps and festivals and a persistent impact developed
by groups of ‘68’ers’ students from Copenhagen.
Professor Kim Voss SOC 280S: Social Movements
Malte Nyfos Mathiasen (maltenyfos@berkeley.edu) May 15, 14
Literature	
  review	
  and	
  theoretical	
  framework	
  
The following section elaborates the main theoretical concepts and discussion
in the canon of social movement literature and relevant for the activists in the 68’ers
Generation and student revolt in Copenhagen.
Gilda et. al set a new standard for the scholarship with oral life history inter-
views from 500 transnational activists in Europe’s ‘68’ (2013), but their selected
sample only include 12 Danes derived from the Women’s movement and “The New
Society”, which is not representative for the whole movement, the student revolt and
cultural shift. Also Gildea et. al ask whether there was a transnational European ‘68’
without a clear definition of transnationalism and an answer to the insinuation that the
‘68’ers were the first global Generation (ibid.: 1; Fietze, 1997). Another relevant part
is their discussion of the absence of a Scandinavian ‘68’, which is complicated by the
Danish case and definitely not appreciated by Danish historians (Gildea et. al, 2013:
4; Scandinavian Journal of History, 33(4), 2008). Nevertheless, I pursue a similar
method and adopt their framework for where ‘68’ happens and where it does not, but
I want to inform the analysis with sociological concept related to the cultural shift,
biographical junctures and a more rigorous analysis of all available activist student in
Copenhagen 1968.
I start out with considerations about culture, cultural shifts and kinship to other
concepts and I then discuss generation and activism, which by scholars and commen-
tators retrospectively have been applied to understand the activities in ‘68’.
In the second part I turn to the research design and describe my data and ex-
pected findings, including some methodological issues concerning the unit of analy-
sis, a feasible control group and activists’ storytelling.
Culture	
  
In Culture Moves Rochon (2000) links the political and social world through
culture. Moral language and conceptual categories change over time and move from
consensus to contention. Culture is closely linked to language and what scholars tend
to call ‘discourse’ to stress the linguistic expression of a system of thoughts (Ibid.:
14f, 33) The problem for social research is that discourses and cultural change are de-
centralized phenomenon and difficult to observe, though Rochon’s method is instruc-
tive for how to observe cultural shift through consumption culture, public media and
polls and for issues such as gender and race inequalities. These sources all possess
Professor Kim Voss SOC 280S: Social Movements
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strengths and weaknesses and I believe that especially the use of a general value sur-
vey and newspaper and media stories will be useful in my case. Ferrer (2003) uses
newspaper stories to compare United States and Germany and indicate a difference in
their master frames and, how ‘radicalism’ and belief niches are constructed differently
in the two countries. Perianal (2006) discusses that law and legislative frames shall be
incorporated to the body of culture, and by emphasizing the staging of social protest
in court and moral language and conceptual categories, I find her argument very com-
patible with Rochon (2000), who demonstrated how moral and judicial categories
loop back to the political, and through varying institutions impact distribution of re-
sources and political power.
In the Making of the Stonewall Myth Armstrong & Crage (2006) argue that
movements are remembered, when 1) activists consider them commemorable and 2)
have sufficient mnemonic capacity. The ‘68’ers Generation meet these standard in the
following decade by having many persons in influential jobs in cultural and economic
institutions, such as media and private business. Post facto we can end that the activist
considered the ‘68’ers movement commemorable, since it is remembered. But I hope
to shed further light on the memory by interviews with different target groups, such as
the activists themselves, audience in Copenhagen and at the University and the gen-
eral public. This is particularly relevant, since the memory of the ‘68’ers have been
highly contested since 80’s, and the interviews might contextualize whether this is an
effect of the subsequent decades or the events around ‘68’ itself. It might turn up that
the 68’ers were remembered just as much by their opponents and audience.
I do not wish depict the ‘68’ers Generation as one of identity politics in con-
trast to class-based and material struggles as other scholars have done writing about
New Social Movements (Inglehardt, 1971; Bernstein & Taylor, 2005). Instead I see
similarities and discontinuities between new and old social movements and the 68’ers
movement. Mainly, the ‘68’ers in the student revolt protested for recognition and a
right to participate and influence in contrast to a materialistic demand for redistribu-
tion.
Bernstein & Taylor (2005) encapsulate, how culture and identity can shape ac-
tivities and social ties. But their policy sphere concerns primarily gay and lesbian
rights and more broadly human and civil rights. It might therefore be interesting to
see, how their framework apply in recognition and right to participate and influence
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other policy arenas. Here Amenta (2006) finds that the possibilities for cultural and
political change are limited when a group’s democratic right and influence over poli-
cy are restricted, which point us in the direction that it is by the cultural and political
changes over time, whereby scholars and the general public will evaluate the ‘68’ers
movement.
Poletta and Jasper (2001) add the dimension of collective identities as an al-
ternative explanation to structural and rationalist account of participation. Polletta
takes a starting point in the literature of framing (Snow et. al, 1986) to describe how
narratives and identity created a distinctive collective action frame, which was im-
portant for the student movement sit-in campaigns in the U.S. 60s. The narrative con-
struction of the repertoire, the sit-ins, as local, spontaneous and moral imperative
made them disseminate the campaign and create a activists identity, event though the
narrative often not fit the strategic planning and bureaucratic coordination of the ac-
tivists (Polenta, 1998).
Generation	
  
Karl Mannheim founded the concept of ‘generation’ in 64’ right around the
moment, where ‘68’ers evolved (Manheim, 1964). For him generation was a dynamic
process, which best can be identified by how it impacted social life through biological
processes of life and death. It implies that new participants continuously arise in cul-
tural processes and former participants disappear. One can only participate temporally
in historical process, and consequently, cultural heritage is transmitted continuously
from one generation to another (ibid. 170). Kertzer (1983) clarifies that the use of
generation to describe a people living in a given period tend to be more used in Histo-
ry than in Sociology, and the literature applies age, young cohorts and life stages to
concretize it). Whether a generation is remembered and valued depend, as Armstrong
and Crage (2006) substantiated above, on the movements commemoration capacity
but also on other generations and social factors, such as the socialization and values of
subsequent generations (Kertzer, 1983: 135f).
Taylor (2014) argues that generations tend to emerge every 20 year (Taylor,
2014), but with the long sixties and the ‘68’ers as last weighty reference point and no
commemorable youth generations before that time and today’s constant claim makers
of new emerging generations, this fact appears very volatile. If we assume the genera-
tions grow in numbers, as youth and school years are prolonged, and university (and
Professor Kim Voss SOC 280S: Social Movements
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high school) cohorts dramatically grow in the latter part of the 20th
Century, it is diffi-
cult to separate a central feature of a generation. Thus, it tends to be a slippery con-
cept, which can be different to distinguish from a cohort or the context. Broadly
speaking, Banton (1979) approach this problem as a trade-off between folk concepts
and analytical concepts, where a science, such as sociology, must pursue the concise
analytical concept and derogate from popular media and resonating stereotypes. Con-
cordant, Pilcher (1994) argues that generation is a concept of everyday life, which is
used widespread in society but for too long have been disregarded by sociologists. I
must say that I find the public stereotypes problematic and somehow want feed into
the public discussion of collective memory. Thus, it appeals to me to tracks in the pro-
ject, where one is sociological rigorous and one is more journalistic and dramatize
and tell the story of the ‘68’ Generation with their own words.
As a concept ‘generation”’ tend to function as an empty container and overlap
with a broader contextualization of the period, since a generation is often defined by a
distinctive feature from the period. E.g. the 60’s had the baby boom and a culture of
consumption and a hippie counter reaction, and the 00’s had September 11, the Mille-
nials and a boom of internet technology (Taylor, 2014). As mentioned above in case I
use the concept my project needs a clear demarcation of “generation” to prevent it
from tautologies, such as the ‘68’ers in Copenhagen were more students and higher
than ever before and therefore demanded free speech and democracy at the Universi-
ty.
Activism	
  
Gildea et. al (2013) summarize three trajectories of activist in the following
paragraph, though I am not convinced that it an adequate description of the Danish or
European case, it can be a starting point:
“Some kept heir leftist dreams alive, despite the risk of seeming naïve or dan-
gerous. Others remade their politics and rejected the leftism of their youth for
liberalism or ne-conservatism. Many more, however, reinvented their activ-
ism, channeling it into the cultural sphere or into their political life” (ibid.: 2)
None of the participants in the ‘68’ers student revolt considered themselves
activists. Contrastingly, the social movement literature often equates participants and
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activist, though activism tends to be more extra-parliamentary and non-institutional
action. Precisely, the ‘68’ ers students revolt were lead by neat students, who in the
60s often wore suits and met with Rector. Thus, there must be taken some cautions to
clarify, how ascribing activism will shed a particular light on the circumstances and
rewrite the movement’s self-image.
Corrigall-Brown approaches the question as a balancing of identity, naming
and socializing into a group (2012: 106). She reveals that (leftist) ideology often is
formative for an (activist) ideology. The awkward conclusion is that some right-
winged activists in social movement organizations are not activist and do not operate
in social movement organization, because they do not like the connotations of social
movements and activism. Thus, I risk biasing my project and repelling right-winged
readers.
Corrigall-Brown acknowledges the problem but according to her these move-
ment persons still are activists, because they fit the analytical definition. I still wonder
where to come down on this problem and apply the concept of activism. I believe a
pragmatic solution would be to be open for other concept of participation and let the
empirical evidence guide me in whether to categorize it as protestors, members, crit-
ics or organizers.
	
  
Research	
  design	
  
McAdam compares in Freedom Summer (1990) the activist with a control
group of non-participating but applying students. Taking this and Munson’s (2010)
method of sampling through referrals of non-activists as an instructive method I plan
to compare the activist group of students at the University of Copenhagen, primarily
with a control group of friends and students at the same time and place, either sam-
pled by random assignment from the cohort of student in ‘68’ or through referrals
from student activists in ‘68’ and secondly with a national sample.
The social movement readings on biographical junctures and participation
(McAdam, 2010; Corrigall-Brown, 2012 and Munson, 2010) made me think about the
misconception that people generally tend to think that social movement activism is a
part of teenage revolts against reproduced patriarchal structures and that perceived
grievances calm down over time and life course. The underlying logic is that as peo-
ple get older and have work nine to five, they tend to be more conservative and not
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engage in contentious politics. I do not claim that this is absolutely false. But I believe
there is more to grasp and that people’s life trajectory and social network are better
predictors of activism. My hypothesis would be, instead of an average petty bourgeois
life after the initial (youthful) activism, the activist involved in social movement ac-
tivities in the 60s also were core actors in the 70s and 80s movements against war,
nuclear power etc. and their values were quite consistent over time. This could reveal
that activist identities, when first established, were stabile and reinforced through so-
cial ties.
As far as my research review goes I have not met any sociological accounts of
the ‘68’ers in a Danish context. My scope would therefore primarily build on histori-
cal accounts and research from Germany or the US case of Berkeley, where the scope
conditions can translate to a small country with 5 million citizens and the capital’s
university of Copenhagen with 10-20.000 students in 1968.
Storytelling	
  and	
  life	
  courses	
  as	
  a	
  method	
  
It is difficult to filter accounts of storytelling and post justification that people
add to their earlier speech and act, which can make it appear more rational or directed
against a revised target or interest. On one hand I want some biographical and move-
ment story telling, but on the other hand I want a realistic rather than altruistic ac-
count. The following attempts to uncover, how I can better separate the meaning,
which activists’ attribute to their activity, and the activity and cultural meaning, which
other perceived it by.
People are revisionist and especially, when it comes to values and identity
lifestyle they possessed but might not align how they consider themselves today. To
prevent and triangulate a revisionist bias, it might be useful to search for measure-
ments of, what the movement and activists did rather than what they say. Archival
material of meetings, minutes and activities and extrovert public repertories might be
preferable sources to meet these ends. By this approach I hope to encapsulate the in-
teraction between storytelling in the movement and the activists’ actions and values
(Poletta, 1998).
Petitt &Western (2004) use a framework of life cycles to explore how impris-
onment (or military service) by chock and socializing mechanisms can alter people
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life trajectories. Their work is instructive to inform how different socioeconomic
groups and generational cohorts with 5-year time-spans and are affected by common
life events. I hope to be able to create a similar index, though my sample probably has
fewer individuals and thus a statistical analysis might end up insignificant. Therefore,
the robustness of my analysis depend on a success to have a fairly large sample and
also have some data on the sampled population.
Data	
  
I will find interview participants through a snowballing method from historical
accounts at the University of Copenhagen and the University Councils record. I ex-
pect participants, who have already stated their opinion about the generation and stu-
dent revolt to be leading and readily available account, which need to be countered by
more restrained voices.
There also exist a fairly amount of historical account related to the 40 years
commemoration of the Student Rebellion (Andersen & Olsen, 2004; Frei, 2008; Jen-
sen & Jørgensen, 2008; Scandinavian Journal of History, 33(4), 2008; Gildea et al.,
2013). I also encountered a very informative radio series with many oral histories
from the public Danish Broadcasting Corporation (where several of the activists later
have worked and one became the Director General) (68 dengang og nu, 2008).
1. Review the historical records and archival material in order find out more accurate-
ly, how people at the time talked about the ‘68’ers movement and student revolt and
who and where the central actors and activities unfolded.
2. Survey send to 50-500 political activists and corresponding non-participants. To
establish a control group I will firstly, ask the surveyed to refer me to a non-
participating friend from the University and crosscheck for duplicates and secondly,
try to find records of the cohort from ‘68’ at the University and randomly assign peo-
ple to the survey. I depend upon one of the above sampling strategies to establish a
most similar control group. The second option is preferable, since I achieve a control
group without sampling on the depending variable and thereby skewing the student
sample by the fact that activist and referred friends tend to be more alike than aver-
age. As a last step, I need a national statistical survey to compare the students and
general population. In contrast to the student sample, a culture and value survey exist
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over time and thus I can substantiate a cultural shift, which often have been attributed
to the ‘68’ers.
3. Biographical interviews with 50 political activists in the ‘68’ers student and univer-
sity protest. With biographical interviews and the survey above I also seek to identify,
if they activist student were different beforehand or became different due to the activi-
ties and social processes of activism.
4. Statistics Denmark has very detailed register data from the 70s (or maybe first in
the 80s). To the extend, I can and am allowed access, I will have data on an individual
level for the activists and firms, in which they have worked. The data can be coupled
with other data. I do not know yet, if this gives me a unique opportunity or only limits
me, since I have to meet sociological standards of confidentiality and anonymization
and thus cannot connect all the dots without identifying the individuals.
Comparison	
  and	
  measurement	
  
1. A Comparative discourse analysis of the ’68’ers Generation in 68, 78, 88, 98
and 2008.
2. A general comparative value and culture survey conducted by Statistics Den-
mark from 1960 to 2010.
3. A comparison between the activist student and the control group of 1) either a)
student friends referrals or b) randomized sampled student from Copenhagen
University in 68’
Expected	
  findings	
  and	
  arguments	
  
Until a year ago the Danish minister of Business Affairs Ole Sohn was criti-
cized for his past being a former leader of the communist party until the fall of the
Berlin Wall and collapse of the Soviet Republic in 89’. Before him the Minister of
Welfare Karen Hækkerup and her husband become infamous for her shift from the
Socialist Left to the largest conservative-liberal party over a 40 years time span. Me-
dia and public opinion gloat over this inconsistency or hypocrisy but also contribute
to produce a myth of political conformism over time, which I do not expect to be true
except from among some top politician. I anticipate my study will show larger varia-
tion and that the average student activist in the ‘68’ers movement had quite consistent
political and cultural belief
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Munson (2010) showed that a third of Pro-Life Activists earlier tended to-
wards the opposite Pro-Choice belief, and he also contested value and belief coher-
ence over time. I believe this is a far-reaching finding, which needs to be replicated in
other settings. Instead, I would hypothesize that a more consistent value and belief
system exist among the participating activists. It will also show up recurrent activism
over time acquired and maintained through social ties.
I also have a an issue with how Munson unilaterally states that belief does not
matter, when I would hypothesize there exist much evidence, which suggest that ac-
tion shapes activists and other participants’ beliefs. My inquiry to review the concept
of activists, generation and culture is driven by an urge to revise his theory about be-
lief, and instead I will communicate the social movement theory in a prominent Dan-
ish case and deliver a stronger argument that culture, identity or ideology have been
shaped through the ‘68’ers activism, action and social processes.
	
   	
  
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  • 1. Professor Kim Voss SOC 280S: Social Movements Malte Nyfos Mathiasen (maltenyfos@berkeley.edu) May 15, 14     The  60s  Generation’s  Life  Course  of   Political  Participation  in  Denmark   Prospectus  for  a  research  project.     I would be happy to receive any comments that could help me in the process.
  • 2. Professor Kim Voss SOC 280S: Social Movements Malte Nyfos Mathiasen (maltenyfos@berkeley.edu) May 15, 14     Table  of  Contents   Research  question  ......................................................................................................................  3   Context  .........................................................................................................................................................  5   Literature  review  and  theoretical  framework  .................................................................  6   Culture  .........................................................................................................................................................  6   Generation  ..................................................................................................................................................  8   Activism  .......................................................................................................................................................  9   Research  design  .......................................................................................................................  10   Storytelling  and  life  courses  as  a  method  ...................................................................................  11   Data  .............................................................................................................................................................  12   Comparison  and  measurement  .......................................................................................................  13   Expected  findings  and  arguments  ..................................................................................................  13   Literature  ...................................................................................................................................  15        
  • 3. Professor Kim Voss SOC 280S: Social Movements Malte Nyfos Mathiasen (maltenyfos@berkeley.edu) May 15, 14 Research  question   In Denmark when the talk is about social movements and change, the refer- ence point always seems to be the 68’ers generation and the happy but childish life of the hippies. The concept of generations is in many accounts continuously used to cat- egorize the 60s and early 70s, where the baby boomers as the first generation after WW2 have been classified as a qualitative different generation or even the first youth generation. Illustratively, many scholars of New Social Movements have celebrated Inglehardt’s claim that the post WW2 western generations were less materialistic and more idealistic and cultural, because they never experienced material sufferings and hunger (Inglehardt, 1971). At the same time I believe one can fairly say that the dis- cursive power of “generation” is more powerful in some countries rather than in oth- ers, and in Denmark the concept of the ‘generation’ is often reified, as new emerging groups of youth claim an identity, and older voices outcry over state of affairs in pub- lic media. As a side note I believe that an examination of the ‘68’ers could create re- newed interest and parallels to the arguably lack of activism today. I therefore set out to ask a research question, which can be answered through a thick contextualization of a movement: How did the activists in the ‘68’ers Generation and the University of Copen- hagen evolve their values and diffuse into other movements over their life course? The relationship under investigation implies to compare the specificity of the activist in the movement over a long period with non-activist at the same time. Also the activists of the ‘68’ers Generation and the student revolt in ‘68’ overlap but ana- lytically needs to be disentangled. The research design is very open, and I have no elaborate thesis on, what the results will look like. I have some prior indications that the population in Denmark at large tends to have quite consistent values over time, especially on a left-to-right po- litical scale (Gundelach, 2011). I am therefore very eager to find out, if the sample of activist in the ‘68’ers Generation at the University of Copenhagen diverges profound- ly, and if they tend to have larger social and sustained (activist) networks, earn less
  • 4. Professor Kim Voss SOC 280S: Social Movements Malte Nyfos Mathiasen (maltenyfos@berkeley.edu) May 15, 14 (or more), maintain a leftist political attitude and continuously organize movements, as they become older. Until today there exist no sociological or systematic account on the ‘68’ers Generation, though there is much written by popular media and historians depicting the ‘68’ers in the period from 1962-82 or 1945-89 (Scandinavian Journal of History, 33(4), 2008; Gildea et al., 2013; Stewart, 2014). The problem I see with the current historical accounts are that they put to much emphasis on individuals, single events and a cohesive narrative of decay without telling how the activists integrated and in- fused other institutions with their values. No doubt it was a decisive period in Danish history both culturally and institutional, where the welfare state and student numbers expanded and even a new university was created to address the demand of the time and the students. Thus, I believe, there is a dual purpose of the research project. First- ly, to examine the life course of activist with explanatory interviews and very accurate micro data and secondly, to inform a very contested dispute over the significance of the ‘68ers Generation, before the activists die, and the data disappears. As one of the activist at the 1964 Free Speech Movement at Berkeley recalled at the 40 year com- memoration, for the students of today, the 60s are as far a past, as the WWI was for them. The ‘68’ers Generation is a very prominent case of activism in Denmark and, therefore comparable to the Civil Rights Movement in the U.S., a natural reference point and an opportunity to disseminate and test the social movement literature in a Danish context. But it is also relevant, because the historical path can set landmarks for repertoires and contestation for future activists and social movement organiza- tions.    
  • 5. Professor Kim Voss SOC 280S: Social Movements Malte Nyfos Mathiasen (maltenyfos@berkeley.edu) May 15, 14 Context     The Danish Student revolt developed from the Institute of Psychology at the University of Copenhagen in 19'. The students were inspired by events in Germany, France, a bit of Italy and the U.S., but events only happened in the capital city of Co- penhagen and not in the three other largest cities of Denmark. I will investigate why none events happened in the other cities and universities. For this purpose I will ex- amine records at Aarhus University, which is the second largest city and conducts the most similar history as Copenhagen. In Copenhagen the activism was relatively short and lasted for some months. It later returned in 1970 but did not have the same suc- cess and impact. Their main objective was to increase participation and influence at the university and diminish the importance of professors and management. In this re- gard they generally succeeded and have had a large impact, until some recent setbacks in democratic student governance from 2001 It has often been related to prior event, such as the youth rebellion in the 60s, the collective movement, anti-nuclear move- ments, anti-war movement emerging from the Vietnam war Even Thylejren and Roskilde festival (the largest Northern European Musical festival), have since 1972 had camps and festivals and a persistent impact developed by groups of ‘68’ers’ students from Copenhagen.
  • 6. Professor Kim Voss SOC 280S: Social Movements Malte Nyfos Mathiasen (maltenyfos@berkeley.edu) May 15, 14 Literature  review  and  theoretical  framework   The following section elaborates the main theoretical concepts and discussion in the canon of social movement literature and relevant for the activists in the 68’ers Generation and student revolt in Copenhagen. Gilda et. al set a new standard for the scholarship with oral life history inter- views from 500 transnational activists in Europe’s ‘68’ (2013), but their selected sample only include 12 Danes derived from the Women’s movement and “The New Society”, which is not representative for the whole movement, the student revolt and cultural shift. Also Gildea et. al ask whether there was a transnational European ‘68’ without a clear definition of transnationalism and an answer to the insinuation that the ‘68’ers were the first global Generation (ibid.: 1; Fietze, 1997). Another relevant part is their discussion of the absence of a Scandinavian ‘68’, which is complicated by the Danish case and definitely not appreciated by Danish historians (Gildea et. al, 2013: 4; Scandinavian Journal of History, 33(4), 2008). Nevertheless, I pursue a similar method and adopt their framework for where ‘68’ happens and where it does not, but I want to inform the analysis with sociological concept related to the cultural shift, biographical junctures and a more rigorous analysis of all available activist student in Copenhagen 1968. I start out with considerations about culture, cultural shifts and kinship to other concepts and I then discuss generation and activism, which by scholars and commen- tators retrospectively have been applied to understand the activities in ‘68’. In the second part I turn to the research design and describe my data and ex- pected findings, including some methodological issues concerning the unit of analy- sis, a feasible control group and activists’ storytelling. Culture   In Culture Moves Rochon (2000) links the political and social world through culture. Moral language and conceptual categories change over time and move from consensus to contention. Culture is closely linked to language and what scholars tend to call ‘discourse’ to stress the linguistic expression of a system of thoughts (Ibid.: 14f, 33) The problem for social research is that discourses and cultural change are de- centralized phenomenon and difficult to observe, though Rochon’s method is instruc- tive for how to observe cultural shift through consumption culture, public media and polls and for issues such as gender and race inequalities. These sources all possess
  • 7. Professor Kim Voss SOC 280S: Social Movements Malte Nyfos Mathiasen (maltenyfos@berkeley.edu) May 15, 14 strengths and weaknesses and I believe that especially the use of a general value sur- vey and newspaper and media stories will be useful in my case. Ferrer (2003) uses newspaper stories to compare United States and Germany and indicate a difference in their master frames and, how ‘radicalism’ and belief niches are constructed differently in the two countries. Perianal (2006) discusses that law and legislative frames shall be incorporated to the body of culture, and by emphasizing the staging of social protest in court and moral language and conceptual categories, I find her argument very com- patible with Rochon (2000), who demonstrated how moral and judicial categories loop back to the political, and through varying institutions impact distribution of re- sources and political power. In the Making of the Stonewall Myth Armstrong & Crage (2006) argue that movements are remembered, when 1) activists consider them commemorable and 2) have sufficient mnemonic capacity. The ‘68’ers Generation meet these standard in the following decade by having many persons in influential jobs in cultural and economic institutions, such as media and private business. Post facto we can end that the activist considered the ‘68’ers movement commemorable, since it is remembered. But I hope to shed further light on the memory by interviews with different target groups, such as the activists themselves, audience in Copenhagen and at the University and the gen- eral public. This is particularly relevant, since the memory of the ‘68’ers have been highly contested since 80’s, and the interviews might contextualize whether this is an effect of the subsequent decades or the events around ‘68’ itself. It might turn up that the 68’ers were remembered just as much by their opponents and audience. I do not wish depict the ‘68’ers Generation as one of identity politics in con- trast to class-based and material struggles as other scholars have done writing about New Social Movements (Inglehardt, 1971; Bernstein & Taylor, 2005). Instead I see similarities and discontinuities between new and old social movements and the 68’ers movement. Mainly, the ‘68’ers in the student revolt protested for recognition and a right to participate and influence in contrast to a materialistic demand for redistribu- tion. Bernstein & Taylor (2005) encapsulate, how culture and identity can shape ac- tivities and social ties. But their policy sphere concerns primarily gay and lesbian rights and more broadly human and civil rights. It might therefore be interesting to see, how their framework apply in recognition and right to participate and influence
  • 8. Professor Kim Voss SOC 280S: Social Movements Malte Nyfos Mathiasen (maltenyfos@berkeley.edu) May 15, 14 other policy arenas. Here Amenta (2006) finds that the possibilities for cultural and political change are limited when a group’s democratic right and influence over poli- cy are restricted, which point us in the direction that it is by the cultural and political changes over time, whereby scholars and the general public will evaluate the ‘68’ers movement. Poletta and Jasper (2001) add the dimension of collective identities as an al- ternative explanation to structural and rationalist account of participation. Polletta takes a starting point in the literature of framing (Snow et. al, 1986) to describe how narratives and identity created a distinctive collective action frame, which was im- portant for the student movement sit-in campaigns in the U.S. 60s. The narrative con- struction of the repertoire, the sit-ins, as local, spontaneous and moral imperative made them disseminate the campaign and create a activists identity, event though the narrative often not fit the strategic planning and bureaucratic coordination of the ac- tivists (Polenta, 1998). Generation   Karl Mannheim founded the concept of ‘generation’ in 64’ right around the moment, where ‘68’ers evolved (Manheim, 1964). For him generation was a dynamic process, which best can be identified by how it impacted social life through biological processes of life and death. It implies that new participants continuously arise in cul- tural processes and former participants disappear. One can only participate temporally in historical process, and consequently, cultural heritage is transmitted continuously from one generation to another (ibid. 170). Kertzer (1983) clarifies that the use of generation to describe a people living in a given period tend to be more used in Histo- ry than in Sociology, and the literature applies age, young cohorts and life stages to concretize it). Whether a generation is remembered and valued depend, as Armstrong and Crage (2006) substantiated above, on the movements commemoration capacity but also on other generations and social factors, such as the socialization and values of subsequent generations (Kertzer, 1983: 135f). Taylor (2014) argues that generations tend to emerge every 20 year (Taylor, 2014), but with the long sixties and the ‘68’ers as last weighty reference point and no commemorable youth generations before that time and today’s constant claim makers of new emerging generations, this fact appears very volatile. If we assume the genera- tions grow in numbers, as youth and school years are prolonged, and university (and
  • 9. Professor Kim Voss SOC 280S: Social Movements Malte Nyfos Mathiasen (maltenyfos@berkeley.edu) May 15, 14 high school) cohorts dramatically grow in the latter part of the 20th Century, it is diffi- cult to separate a central feature of a generation. Thus, it tends to be a slippery con- cept, which can be different to distinguish from a cohort or the context. Broadly speaking, Banton (1979) approach this problem as a trade-off between folk concepts and analytical concepts, where a science, such as sociology, must pursue the concise analytical concept and derogate from popular media and resonating stereotypes. Con- cordant, Pilcher (1994) argues that generation is a concept of everyday life, which is used widespread in society but for too long have been disregarded by sociologists. I must say that I find the public stereotypes problematic and somehow want feed into the public discussion of collective memory. Thus, it appeals to me to tracks in the pro- ject, where one is sociological rigorous and one is more journalistic and dramatize and tell the story of the ‘68’ Generation with their own words. As a concept ‘generation”’ tend to function as an empty container and overlap with a broader contextualization of the period, since a generation is often defined by a distinctive feature from the period. E.g. the 60’s had the baby boom and a culture of consumption and a hippie counter reaction, and the 00’s had September 11, the Mille- nials and a boom of internet technology (Taylor, 2014). As mentioned above in case I use the concept my project needs a clear demarcation of “generation” to prevent it from tautologies, such as the ‘68’ers in Copenhagen were more students and higher than ever before and therefore demanded free speech and democracy at the Universi- ty. Activism   Gildea et. al (2013) summarize three trajectories of activist in the following paragraph, though I am not convinced that it an adequate description of the Danish or European case, it can be a starting point: “Some kept heir leftist dreams alive, despite the risk of seeming naïve or dan- gerous. Others remade their politics and rejected the leftism of their youth for liberalism or ne-conservatism. Many more, however, reinvented their activ- ism, channeling it into the cultural sphere or into their political life” (ibid.: 2) None of the participants in the ‘68’ers student revolt considered themselves activists. Contrastingly, the social movement literature often equates participants and
  • 10. Professor Kim Voss SOC 280S: Social Movements Malte Nyfos Mathiasen (maltenyfos@berkeley.edu) May 15, 14 activist, though activism tends to be more extra-parliamentary and non-institutional action. Precisely, the ‘68’ ers students revolt were lead by neat students, who in the 60s often wore suits and met with Rector. Thus, there must be taken some cautions to clarify, how ascribing activism will shed a particular light on the circumstances and rewrite the movement’s self-image. Corrigall-Brown approaches the question as a balancing of identity, naming and socializing into a group (2012: 106). She reveals that (leftist) ideology often is formative for an (activist) ideology. The awkward conclusion is that some right- winged activists in social movement organizations are not activist and do not operate in social movement organization, because they do not like the connotations of social movements and activism. Thus, I risk biasing my project and repelling right-winged readers. Corrigall-Brown acknowledges the problem but according to her these move- ment persons still are activists, because they fit the analytical definition. I still wonder where to come down on this problem and apply the concept of activism. I believe a pragmatic solution would be to be open for other concept of participation and let the empirical evidence guide me in whether to categorize it as protestors, members, crit- ics or organizers.   Research  design   McAdam compares in Freedom Summer (1990) the activist with a control group of non-participating but applying students. Taking this and Munson’s (2010) method of sampling through referrals of non-activists as an instructive method I plan to compare the activist group of students at the University of Copenhagen, primarily with a control group of friends and students at the same time and place, either sam- pled by random assignment from the cohort of student in ‘68’ or through referrals from student activists in ‘68’ and secondly with a national sample. The social movement readings on biographical junctures and participation (McAdam, 2010; Corrigall-Brown, 2012 and Munson, 2010) made me think about the misconception that people generally tend to think that social movement activism is a part of teenage revolts against reproduced patriarchal structures and that perceived grievances calm down over time and life course. The underlying logic is that as peo- ple get older and have work nine to five, they tend to be more conservative and not
  • 11. Professor Kim Voss SOC 280S: Social Movements Malte Nyfos Mathiasen (maltenyfos@berkeley.edu) May 15, 14 engage in contentious politics. I do not claim that this is absolutely false. But I believe there is more to grasp and that people’s life trajectory and social network are better predictors of activism. My hypothesis would be, instead of an average petty bourgeois life after the initial (youthful) activism, the activist involved in social movement ac- tivities in the 60s also were core actors in the 70s and 80s movements against war, nuclear power etc. and their values were quite consistent over time. This could reveal that activist identities, when first established, were stabile and reinforced through so- cial ties. As far as my research review goes I have not met any sociological accounts of the ‘68’ers in a Danish context. My scope would therefore primarily build on histori- cal accounts and research from Germany or the US case of Berkeley, where the scope conditions can translate to a small country with 5 million citizens and the capital’s university of Copenhagen with 10-20.000 students in 1968. Storytelling  and  life  courses  as  a  method   It is difficult to filter accounts of storytelling and post justification that people add to their earlier speech and act, which can make it appear more rational or directed against a revised target or interest. On one hand I want some biographical and move- ment story telling, but on the other hand I want a realistic rather than altruistic ac- count. The following attempts to uncover, how I can better separate the meaning, which activists’ attribute to their activity, and the activity and cultural meaning, which other perceived it by. People are revisionist and especially, when it comes to values and identity lifestyle they possessed but might not align how they consider themselves today. To prevent and triangulate a revisionist bias, it might be useful to search for measure- ments of, what the movement and activists did rather than what they say. Archival material of meetings, minutes and activities and extrovert public repertories might be preferable sources to meet these ends. By this approach I hope to encapsulate the in- teraction between storytelling in the movement and the activists’ actions and values (Poletta, 1998). Petitt &Western (2004) use a framework of life cycles to explore how impris- onment (or military service) by chock and socializing mechanisms can alter people
  • 12. Professor Kim Voss SOC 280S: Social Movements Malte Nyfos Mathiasen (maltenyfos@berkeley.edu) May 15, 14 life trajectories. Their work is instructive to inform how different socioeconomic groups and generational cohorts with 5-year time-spans and are affected by common life events. I hope to be able to create a similar index, though my sample probably has fewer individuals and thus a statistical analysis might end up insignificant. Therefore, the robustness of my analysis depend on a success to have a fairly large sample and also have some data on the sampled population. Data   I will find interview participants through a snowballing method from historical accounts at the University of Copenhagen and the University Councils record. I ex- pect participants, who have already stated their opinion about the generation and stu- dent revolt to be leading and readily available account, which need to be countered by more restrained voices. There also exist a fairly amount of historical account related to the 40 years commemoration of the Student Rebellion (Andersen & Olsen, 2004; Frei, 2008; Jen- sen & Jørgensen, 2008; Scandinavian Journal of History, 33(4), 2008; Gildea et al., 2013). I also encountered a very informative radio series with many oral histories from the public Danish Broadcasting Corporation (where several of the activists later have worked and one became the Director General) (68 dengang og nu, 2008). 1. Review the historical records and archival material in order find out more accurate- ly, how people at the time talked about the ‘68’ers movement and student revolt and who and where the central actors and activities unfolded. 2. Survey send to 50-500 political activists and corresponding non-participants. To establish a control group I will firstly, ask the surveyed to refer me to a non- participating friend from the University and crosscheck for duplicates and secondly, try to find records of the cohort from ‘68’ at the University and randomly assign peo- ple to the survey. I depend upon one of the above sampling strategies to establish a most similar control group. The second option is preferable, since I achieve a control group without sampling on the depending variable and thereby skewing the student sample by the fact that activist and referred friends tend to be more alike than aver- age. As a last step, I need a national statistical survey to compare the students and general population. In contrast to the student sample, a culture and value survey exist
  • 13. Professor Kim Voss SOC 280S: Social Movements Malte Nyfos Mathiasen (maltenyfos@berkeley.edu) May 15, 14 over time and thus I can substantiate a cultural shift, which often have been attributed to the ‘68’ers. 3. Biographical interviews with 50 political activists in the ‘68’ers student and univer- sity protest. With biographical interviews and the survey above I also seek to identify, if they activist student were different beforehand or became different due to the activi- ties and social processes of activism. 4. Statistics Denmark has very detailed register data from the 70s (or maybe first in the 80s). To the extend, I can and am allowed access, I will have data on an individual level for the activists and firms, in which they have worked. The data can be coupled with other data. I do not know yet, if this gives me a unique opportunity or only limits me, since I have to meet sociological standards of confidentiality and anonymization and thus cannot connect all the dots without identifying the individuals. Comparison  and  measurement   1. A Comparative discourse analysis of the ’68’ers Generation in 68, 78, 88, 98 and 2008. 2. A general comparative value and culture survey conducted by Statistics Den- mark from 1960 to 2010. 3. A comparison between the activist student and the control group of 1) either a) student friends referrals or b) randomized sampled student from Copenhagen University in 68’ Expected  findings  and  arguments   Until a year ago the Danish minister of Business Affairs Ole Sohn was criti- cized for his past being a former leader of the communist party until the fall of the Berlin Wall and collapse of the Soviet Republic in 89’. Before him the Minister of Welfare Karen Hækkerup and her husband become infamous for her shift from the Socialist Left to the largest conservative-liberal party over a 40 years time span. Me- dia and public opinion gloat over this inconsistency or hypocrisy but also contribute to produce a myth of political conformism over time, which I do not expect to be true except from among some top politician. I anticipate my study will show larger varia- tion and that the average student activist in the ‘68’ers movement had quite consistent political and cultural belief
  • 14. Professor Kim Voss SOC 280S: Social Movements Malte Nyfos Mathiasen (maltenyfos@berkeley.edu) May 15, 14 Munson (2010) showed that a third of Pro-Life Activists earlier tended to- wards the opposite Pro-Choice belief, and he also contested value and belief coher- ence over time. I believe this is a far-reaching finding, which needs to be replicated in other settings. Instead, I would hypothesize that a more consistent value and belief system exist among the participating activists. It will also show up recurrent activism over time acquired and maintained through social ties. I also have a an issue with how Munson unilaterally states that belief does not matter, when I would hypothesize there exist much evidence, which suggest that ac- tion shapes activists and other participants’ beliefs. My inquiry to review the concept of activists, generation and culture is driven by an urge to revise his theory about be- lief, and instead I will communicate the social movement theory in a prominent Dan- ish case and deliver a stronger argument that culture, identity or ideology have been shaped through the ‘68’ers activism, action and social processes.    
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