Project: Video: Woodstock:  The Emergence of Youth Culture & Personal Freedom 
Your Mission, should you decide to accept it:
Answer the questions found below as a group. 
Hand in one answer with everyone's name. 
1.  First & last & in alphabetical order by last name. 
      - Include only members who are present. 
2.  Indicate the date:  _____________________ 		 3.  Indicate the name of the class. 
4.  Indicate the name of the Project. 
Be thorough; write good answers. 
Use your time wisely. 
Be finished by the end of the allowed time. 
Project: Woodstock:  The Emergence of Youth Culture & Personal Freedom 

There are particular socio historical events that are considered to be emblematic, ie characteristic of social change such that they mark cultural eras in human history.
These include: 
-  the development of agriculture, organized religion, patriarchy, & slavery 
-  the development of the city state 
-  the development of the city state empire 
-  the development of the nation state 
-  the Industrial Revolution 
-  the Enlightenment 
-  Woodstock 
-  the Technological Revolution 
In the future: 
-  the biogenetic revolution 
-  artificial intelligence 

Woodstock represents the emergence of youth culture & the many cultural practices that it embodies, such as: 
-  the value & belief that a / the youth generation has an important function in society, ie has power / something to offer 
-  the value & belief that an / the elder generation holds much of the reigns of power & often uses it to control others (esp via patriarchy, racism, & seniority) 
-  the expansion of  religious diversity away from large, organized mainstream religious 
-  a movement of the examination of the value of materialism from the religious sphere to the secular sphere 
-  the erosion of the power of political parties
-  the sexual revolution:  the belief that sex btwn consenting adults is their private business 
-  & more 

There are now 1.8 bb young people in the world, which is about 25% of the population 
Nations w/ higher than average youth pops include Afghanistan & China, in which over 1/3 of their pop is young 
Unplanned Sources of Social Change: 
1.  Changes in the physical environment 
2.  Contract & diffusion 
3.  Rationality 
4.  Technology 
5.  The media 
6.  Social mobility 
7.  Urbanization 
8.  Internal conflict 
9.  War / external conflict 
1.  In relation to the emergence of youth culture & the cultural practices that it embodies, discuss / expand upon these cultural practices, ie compare the pre Woodstock generation(s) & the Woodstock generation 

2.  Explain how the unplanned sources of social change might be used to explain how / why the Woodstock social change came about 

3.  In relation to the emergence of youth culture & the cultural practices that it embodies, discuss / expand upon these cultural practices, ie compare the Woodstock generation & the post Woodstock generation, ie your generation 

4.  Explain how the unplanned sources of social change might be used to explain how / why the post Woodstock social change came about 

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