A Legacy of Protest
The "Events of May" in Retrospect
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6336451 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Melvin Seeman (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1984 |
| Volume | 5 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 437 |
| Publication date | 1984-09-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Political Psychology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0162-895X • E-ISSN: 1467-9221 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/3790886 |
| OpenAlex | W2330225512 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 22 |
French workers, and a parallel sample of American workers, both originally interviewed in 1967, were reinterviewed in 1973 to examine (1) changes in alienation chiefly, feelings of po werlessness and self-estrangement in work; and (2) the relation of the original level of alienation to subsequent engagement in the French Events of May (1968). The results indicate that (1) low powerlessness (but not work alienation) in 1967 correlated with strike participation; (2) postcrisis (1973) levels of alienation were not significantly related to either participation in, or attitudes concerning, the May events; (3) patterned overall changes in political powerlessness occurred in the United States, but not in France; (4) participants in the French strikes exhibited a modest increase in powerlessness; and (5) those most favorable to May tended to be both low in powerlessness and from the political left. The discussion centers on the relative importance of powerlessness as against work alienation, the necessary distinctions regarding domains ofpowerlessness, and the purported changes in authoritarian styles of interaction in France
Criminology · Political science · Agriculture and Farm Safety · Education, sociology, and vocational training · Employment and Welfare Studies · Psychology · Social Psychology
The Prediction of Social Action from a Dimension of Internal-External Control
Generalized expectancies for internal versus external control of reinforcement.
Decline or Renewal? France since the 1930's
Personality Under Social Catastrophe
Dramatic events and attitude change
The New Ghetto Man
Tracing Members of a Panel
Activists Ten Years Later
Internal‐External Control in the Motivational Dynamics of Negro Youth
The Polls
Four components of the Rotter Internal-External scale
Hardship and Collective Violence in France, 1830 to 1960
Political Alienation in America, 1952-1968
On the Personal Consequences of Alienation in Work
Alienation, Race, and Education
The Signals of '68
Social Integration and Certain Corollaries
On The Meaning of Alienation
Civil Disorder Participation
The Barsebäck 'Panic
Isolation, Powerlessness, and Violence
| Unique citing works | 3 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,09 |
| Citation span | 1992 - 2012 (21) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |