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- Sociologists now refer to the "generation gap" as "institutional age segregation". Usually, when any of these age groups are engaged in its primary activity, the individual members are physically isolated from people of other generations, with little interaction across age barriers except at the nuclear family level.
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Jun 23, 2021 · Inspired particularly by the philosopher Ortega y Gasset and by Mannheim, this article shows that generations conceptually crosscuts different disciplines. Drawing on sociology, philosophy, and history, it applies the concept to the identification of six generations in Spain with different collective identities.
- 5 Gender and the Intimate Politics of Reproduction
- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
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- Teachers, the End of Ideology, and the Pace of Change
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- ‘Safeguarding’, Child Protection and Implicit Knowledge
- Gender and the Intimate Politics of Reproduction
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Demography and the ‘Natural Existence’ of Generations Gender and the Generational Contract The Birth of Social Policy and the Problem of Reproduction The Sixties and the ‘War over the Family’ Generations and the Transformation of Intimacy Conclusion Note References
I have many people to thank for their role in this book. Professor Frank Furedi and Dr Ellie Lee for their contribution to the ideas presented here, and for their friendship and intellectual collaboration. Friends and colleagues at Canterbury Christ Church University and the Centre for Parenting Culture Studies, for their encouragement and inspirat...
Tony Blair’s determination to end the ‘Great Debate’ that his predecessor began reveals the extent of the turn against knowledge that character-ised education in Britain at the end of the twentieth century. In the next chapter, we discuss the intellectual currents that underpinned this policy approach, and the way it reframed teaching, less as a ge...
Abstract Teachers, as representatives of the older generation, are charged with responsibility for transmitting the cultural heritage. However, a growing ambivalence about the status and role of knowledge has formed the basis of a consciousness framed by the imperatives of risk manage-ment. This chapter discusses the way that the instrumental orie...
The trends described above have important consequences for the proj-ect of transmitting the cultural heritage. With its emphasis on constant change and the mediation of risk, today’s society tends towards a dismis-sive approach to history. The past is indeed seen as ‘another country’, with wholly different rules, norms, and institutions; and the ex...
Abstract Much of children’s knowledge of the world comes not from formal education but from implicit, everyday interactions between the generations, within the family and the community. This chapter discusses how the need to protect and socialise children is gradually devolving from a generalised generational responsibility into a bureaucratic fun...
Abstract Policy interest in the problem of generations has for a long time had a naturalistic quality, expressed in a preoccupation with demographic trends, and the ideology of eugenics. It has also presumed an interest in the domain of social reproduction, situating the family as a cause of, and solution to, social problems. This chapter explores...
Abstract Talk of a crisis of generations in the present day both overstates and underestimates the problem. Most empirical research indicates that, in practice, generations continue to support and care for each other, and there is little overt intergenerational confl ict. However, the wider ambiva-lence about knowledge, adulthood, and intimacy rev...
Mannheim's essay 'The Problem of Generations' is regarded as the most systematic and fully developed treatment of generation from a sociological perspective (Bengtson, et al. 1974), because it firmly locates generation within socio-historical contexts, and moreover, is part of a wider sociological theory of knowledge.
The sociological theory of a generation gap first came to light in the 1960s, when the younger generation (later known as baby boomers) seemed to go against everything their parents had previously believed in terms of music, values, government and political views as well as cultural tastes. Sociologists now refer to the "generation gap" as ...
Dec 13, 2021 · Thus, in this article, we start from an overview of some of the more influential theoretical formulations of ‘generation’ in key texts of twentieth century social theory – works by José Ortega y Gasset, Karl Mannheim, Antonio Gramsci, Pierre Bourdieu, Raymond Williams and Stuart Hall.
Jan 27, 2017 · The idea of shared experience is central to Mannheim’s (1952) theory. Therefore, by definition, a generation is a group of people who have gone through the same key societal and historical life events and therefore share the same collective memories (Halbwachs, 1980; Schuman & Scott, 1989).
Sep 13, 2021 · the ‘generation gap’ is an important social tool for any repressive society. If the younger members of a community view the older members as contemptible or suspect or excess, they will never be able to join hands and examine the living memories of the community, nor ask the all-important question, ‘Why?’ (Lorde, [1984] 2007 , p. 117)
