Year
2024
Publisher
Bristol University Press
Language
English
Pages
15
ISBN
978-1-52922-350-7
Last Update
16-Oct-2024
Keywords
Sociology
What’s in the concept of generation, and how should it be used? In exploring these two questions, this book seeks to introduce readers to the interdisciplinary potential of, and the intellectual tensions within, the field of generational studies.
The concept of generation has focused sociological interest and debate since the 1920s when sociologist of knowledge Karl Mannheim tried to define the ‘problem of generations’ (Mannheim, 1952 [1928]). It has developed in a number of directions in the subsequent century, often in conversation with related disciplines. It is a concept that is both instantly recognizable and open to numerous interpretations. For...
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