It may be difficult to demonstrate the beneficial impact of the cultural unrest of the 1960s on the decades that follow. It is difficult to minimise its importance: it contributed, directly and indirectly, to the birth of mass feminism, to the ecological movement, to the growth, expansion and diffusion of the importance of subjectivity and consciousness, to the recognition of the existence of institutionalised and disguised forms of racism and repression. In academia, the movement directly or indirectly led to a revolution in the humanities and social sciences: the development and spread of social history in all its forms, the growth of sociology, the flowering of interdisciplinary approaches, the evolution of increasingly sophisticated theoretical methods.