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Jan 27, 2017 · For example, Giancola (2006) described the notion of a “generation gap” as “more myth than reality” (p. 32), while Lyons, Duxbury, and Higgins (2007) noted the lack of sound empirical work investigating popular generational stereotypes.
- Emma Parry, Peter Urwin
- 2017
Feb 29, 2024 · Whether they erupt into something more significant, creating something that later theorists and commentators would describe as a ‘generation gap’, depends on wider social forces operating at that time, and the interaction between the pace of social change and the cohorts coming to maturity.
- Jennie Bristow
Jun 23, 2021 · Mannheim conceived of generations as a problem for historical sociology. In his view, historical context had strong experiential effects on the formative years of a birth cohort (those who were born and grew up in the same period), effects which persist over the life course.
Dec 13, 2021 · One of the fundamental problems of generation – conceived as an analytical term – has been the propensity to conflate ethical commensurability in the social encounter (coevalness) with presence at a particular chronological time (contemporaneity).
The modern scientific usage and understanding of the term “generations” can be traced back to sociologist Karl Mannheim’s The Problem of Generations (1952). Mannheim theorized that generations provide a basis for understanding social movements—how social change is possible while cultural traditions and identity are preserved.
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.
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Jul 6, 2018 · This theoretical problem links to Bourdieu’s analysis of how social groups, and in this case young people, respond to discursive and behavioural groupings that are differentiated by age, gender, ethnicity, social position, or ‘social generation’ (p. 14).
