Changing one’s life to change the world?: The politicisation of the private sphere

The effects of the events of May ’68 can also be found in the private sphere,¹ which was subject to its share of breakdowns and upheavals in the wake of activism. Indeed, the sociology of the biographical consequences of activism cannot ignore the personal spaces in which political dispositions and preferences will be applied. From the beginning of the 1970s, many interviewees thus sought to continue their activism by attacking the logics of social reproduction within the family and within the school system. For them, participation in May ’68 produced a critical redefinition of social relations of sex, generation, and