Generation, Discourse, and Social Change (Routledge Advances in Sociology) - Hardcover

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Foster, Karen R.

 
9780415817660: Generation, Discourse, and Social Change (Routledge Advances in Sociology)
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ISBN 10: 0415817668 ISBN 13: 9780415817660
Publisher: Routledge, 2013

Synopsis

Just what is a generation? And why, if at all, does it matter? This book asks what generation means to ordinary people, arguing that generation is real and it matters, but not in the ways that we think. Generations are not groups of people who can be categorized and attributed with static, immutable and universal characteristics, nor are they reducible to cohorts, as is the tendency in much social research. Rather, the book reveals generation to be a social phenomenon and a mechanism of social change - as a constellation of ideas and discourses that explains what happens when ideas and ideals collide, and why some discourses flourish and take hold at particular times.

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About the Author

Karen R. Foster is a Banting Post-Doctoral Fellow in Management at Saint Mary’s University in Halifax, Nova Scotia.

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Publisher
Routledge
Publication date
2013
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0415817668
ISBN 13 
9780415817660
Binding
Hardcover
Edition number
1
Number of pages
176

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