Why does your professor glorify the 'sixties counterculture' in social anthropology class?

Question

Why does your professor glorify the 'sixties counterculture' in social anthropology class?

Answer 1

The 60's were a break from the earlier straight laced era evolved from the Victorian era.It marked a seperating point.It is just as significant as the Age of Reason,The Dark Ages ect...ect...ect.

Answer 2

Stuck in the 60s. Very common in unhappy people.

Answer 3

most likely he/she lived in that time period.

Answer 4

because it was a more powerful and widespread (global) counterculture than most that preceeded it (beat the 50s; 40's; 30's; maybe tied the 20's). Because it involved a great deal of social change; social and political upheaval; more polorization than at any time since the civil war; violence; personal change; personal freedom; changes in thinking; a tremendous bursting forth of creativity; and many diverse people: blacks; youth; women; other minorities. It changed things a lot and some things forever. Rules; fashion; grass; hair; conformity; "rights"; music; art; s*x; freedom;  and a lot of other stuff will never be the same again. I do not know what you mean by "glorify" perhaps some professors are not objective and take an opinionated position (I personally think the sixties were a good thing) but that decade and the early 70s that continued it, is certainly worthy of objective study in a college course.

Answer 5

Mine didn't. But don't let that blind you to the fact that the 60s were a very good time for social anthropologists. Lots of growth and new theories in the field.

Answer 6

he was probably part of it---and still there in his mind

Answer 7

Because he was taken with the moronic, relativistic social movements that came out of the time. An era of romanticism, dualism and empiricism. All doctrines refuted and needed to be kept in the last century.