Contemporary Student Rebellions—Intellectual Rebellion and Generational Conflict

Beyond many features which contemporary student currents share with other types of youth movements, the contemporary student movements evince also some new ones. Of these, two are perhaps most outstanding. There is, first, that probably for the first time in history at least some parts of these movements tend to become entirely dissociated from broader social or national movements, from the adult world, and do not tend to accept any adult models or association—thus stressing intergenerational discontinuity and conflict to an unprecedented extent.