Defining the New Left

Gosse, Van

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“…One was the New Left. This protest movement erupted on university campuses and sought to ‘overturn existing structures of racial, gender, and economic privilege in favor of a radical vision of equality and democracy’ (Gosse, 2005, p. 4). Apart from championing a leftist political agenda, the New Left was a deeply anti-establishment movement that advocated flat hierarchies and presented itself as an alternative to rigid labor unions and party machines (Farred, 2000).…”

Section: The Ideologies Of Tech Workersmentioning

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Liberal and anti-establishment: An exploration of the political ideologies of American tech workers

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Strimling

2023

The Sociological Review

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The tech industry profoundly impacts our lives and has gained great economic and political influence. Yet, we know little about the people inside tech firms, whose actions and decisions shape technological progress and its impact on society. What is of particular relevance is their opinions and beliefs about the proper order of society and the societal role of tech firms – that is to say, their political ideologies. The few existing studies on this topic mainly concentrate on tech leaders. Our study shifts attention to the workers who develop the technology. Numerous works highlight their influence on the affordances of technology and decisions taken by their firms. Our quantitative analysis of campaign contributions shows that American tech workers exhibit a unique combination of left-wing (liberal) and anti-establishment attitudes. Moreover, we expose a substantial ideological divide between tech workers and their leaders. We discuss these findings in relation to the development of new technologies, employee activism, and tech workers as a distinct class fraction.

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Section: The Ideologies Of Tech Workersmentioning

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Liberal and anti-establishment: An exploration of the political ideologies of American tech workers

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2023

The Sociological Review

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“…It was an era of great economic and material abundance. During this period, any White male high school graduate could reasonably expect to earn enough money to support a family, own a house, a car, abundant material goods and household appliances, and send his children to college (Gosse, 2005).…”

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“…The New Left emerged in the 1960s, as a successor to the American communist party that had been weakened by both McCarthyism, and the growing recognition of the totalitarian nature of Russian communism. In contrast to the traditional American left which consisted of an alliance between leftist intellectuals and blue collar workers, the New Left consisted primarily of college students, coming from financially comfortable middle class families, who rejected mainstream, consumer culture establishment values and embraced aspects of left wing ideology, and a series of progressive causes including the civil rights movement, gender equality, proabortion policies, and gay rights (Gosse, 2005). Other important unifying themes were the antinuclear movement of the late 1950s and early 1960s and perhaps most explosively, the Vietnam War protests.…”

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The unbearable lightness of being: Authenticity and the search for the real.

Safran¹

2017

Psychoanalytic Psychology

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In this article I review some of the ways in which the themes of authenticity, spontaneity and improvisation have become important values in the writing of many contemporary psychoanalysts. I examine the emergence of this trend in the context of historical and cultural changes in the construction of the self, and the fragmentation of traditional beliefs and social structures linking the individual to the collective. I also explore the relationship between the principle of authenticity and various dimensions including autonomy, mutuality, intersubjectivity, and the ethical realm. In addition I explore the perceived tensions between traditional social forms and the experience of authenticity, and examine the implications of the questions raised in this essay for our conception of the nature of psychoanalytic practice.

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“…Some address the participation of students in struggles for black studies, ethnic studies, and women’s studies (Rojas 2010; Biondi 2012; Kendi 2012). Dominant scholarly narratives, however, tend to see the student movement as dissipating and dividing in the mid-1970s, just when LGBT, feminist, Asian American, Latinx, and Native American student movements were gaining strength and vitality (Echols 1992; Hunt 1999; Gosse 2005). Such narratives perpetuate queer marginalization by turning their attention elsewhere, just when LGBT students were gaining power and visibility.…”

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Students, Sodomy, and the State: LGBT Campus Struggles in the 1970s

Stein¹

2022

Law Soc. Inq.

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In the 1970s, LGBT students at fourteen US colleges and universities took their institutions to court after newly established gay student groups were denied official recognition. While the students suffered defeats along the way, by the end of the decade they had won the war for recognition. This article provides a broad overview of these cases, discusses their significance, and argues that we cannot understand the struggle for gay student group recognition without considering its relationship to the state regulation of sex. Advocates for gay student groups won most of their battles by responding to the claim that recognition would be tantamount to aiding and abetting criminal sexual activities. They did so by pursuing strategies of desexualization, which denied that gay student groups encouraged same-sex sex. The article explores these strategies by focusing on three 1976 Virginia cases, one about gay student group recognition, one about the criminalization of same-sex sex, and one about the application of the state’s sodomy law to an interracial threesome. The divergent outcomes help us understand the strategic effectiveness and political limitations of LGBT desexualization strategies.

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Defining the New Left

Cited by 4 publications

References 2 publications

Liberal and anti-establishment: An exploration of the political ideologies of American tech workers

Liberal and anti-establishment: An exploration of the political ideologies of American tech workers

The unbearable lightness of being: Authenticity and the search for the real.

Students, Sodomy, and the State: LGBT Campus Struggles in the 1970s

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