Micro-units of Generation ’68

The preceding chapters have shed light on various socialising effects brought about by participation in May ’68. Figure 10 below provides a synthesis of the diversity of responses mobilised in the months (or years) that followed the events, in the face of the twin requirements to remain faithful to past commitments whilst achieving social reintegration. Yet it is not enough to simply list these different forms of activist reconversion to construct a sociology of post-’68er political trajectories. Indeed, we have seen that the quest for political alternatives, and for ways to bring one’s environment (particularly professionally) into line with one’s