Generations: the time machine in theory and practice

by Burnett, Judith

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Full title :Generations : the time machine in theory and practice / Judith Burnett

Summary

Generations: The Time Machine in Theory and Practice challenges the fragmented and diverse use of the concept of generation commonly found in the social sciences. It approaches the concept in a manner that stretches the sociological imagination away from its orientation toward the present by building the concept of the passage of time into our understanding of the social. It proposes an innovative and exciting view of the field of generations, lifting it out from life course and cohort analysis, and reconstituting the area with fresh and dynamic ways of seeing. With its unique, intellectually innovative and sustained critical study of generational work, Generations will appeal to scholars across a range of social sciences and humanities, and will be of particular interest to social theorists and anthropologists, as well as sociologists of social history, consumption, identity and culture

Edition Statements

Publication Date:2010

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Ashgate
Place of Publication:Farnham
Language:eng
Publication Date:2010

The Physical Object

Description:150 s. : : ill

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9780754674566, 0754674568
oclc:ocn768089637
LC Classification:HM721
Dewey Decimal:305.2

Introduction; Meet the ancestors; Mannheim and the concept of generation; After Mannheim: the 20th century concepts of ... ; The Epic generation of 1914-18; The Boomers: post war consumption generations; The 2nd wave Boomers; Ageing and the generations of the future; Bibliography; Index