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Origin and Use of Generational Theories. This chapter reviews the history and use of generational theories, as well as the creation of such generational labels as “baby boomers” and “millennials” that are used to describe people born in a certain time period or of a certain age.
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An additional task for researchers is to identify...
- 6 Workforce Management in a New Era
6 Workforce Management in a New Era. The purpose of this...
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Evaluate theory, data and statistical methods used in order...
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The National Academy of Sciences was established in 1863 by...
- 4 Review of The Generational Literature
While this is a worthwhile research pursuit, the existing...
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sociological theorizing and research on age in terms of social gener-ation (in the Mannheimian tradition) within British sociology. To encourage the newly developing field of the social significance of age to include a concern with age in terms of social generation, this paper gives an account of Mannheim's theory and highlights its value in
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.
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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.
Jun 23, 2021 · In its focus on generational consciousness, Eyerman and Turner 1998 elucidates the concept’s importance to cultural sociology. Caballero and Baigorri 2019 show how the generations concept affords a conceptual tool that cuts across different disciplines.
Mannheim's theory of generations has been applied to explain how important historical, cultural, and political events of the late 1950s and the early 1960s educated youth of the inequalities in American society, such as their involvement along with other generations in the Civil Rights Movement, and have given rise to a belief that those ...
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Jul 6, 2018 · The aim of this article is to question the notions of ‘generation’ and ‘transitions’ from a theoretical perspective by making a brief historical incursion into the sociology of generations.
