There's also a draft-dodger factor.
Take a look at any given faculty in America. You'll find that many of them got their PhDs in the late '60s. They stayed in school not for intellectual pursuit, but to stay out of the war.
Many of them ended up on faculties, and choked the hiring system by their numbers. Closed the door on new hires for about 20 years at some places.
>> There's also a draft-dodger factor. Take a look at any given faculty in America. You'll find that many of them got their PhDs in the late '60s. They stayed in school not for intellectual pursuit, but to stay out of the war.
Exactly. Shortly after the Vietnam War ended there were so many PhD's in the soft 'sciences' (Psychology, Sociology, Economics, Political Science, etc.) that quite a few were pumping gas. Many that did not get a University faculty job eventually ended up as one of the Army of Federal and State government Social Workers (recall this was near the beginning of Johnson's disastrous "war on poverty").