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Dec 13, 2021 · Once more today we feel compelled to engage analytically with generation, aiming to outline some of the contradictions it fosters, but also some of the analytical advantages it holds for social theory.
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Jan 27, 2017 · As practitioners have adopted the concept of generations, scholars have strived to examine the differences between generational groups and to provide evidence for the idea that these different groups have unique values, attitudes, preferences, and expectations both in and outside of the workplace.
- Emma Parry, Peter Urwin
- 2017
3. 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.
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.
Feb 13, 2019 · Since its publication in the 1920s, Mannheim’s essay, ‘The Problem of Generations’ (1952 [1928]), has attained seminal status in marked contrast to Norbert Elias’s theoretical formulations on generations. Despite Elias's close relationship over many years with Mannheim, the symmetries in their sociological programmes, and, crucially ...
- John Connolly
- 2019
Sep 13, 2021 · This paper by a historian and literary scholar teases apart (1) the diachronic and synchronic meanings of ‘generation’, (2) the difference between ‘a generation in itself’ from ‘a generation for itself’ that has a social identity, and (3) generational identities that are claimed from within or ascribed from without.
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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 ...
