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Record Nr.

UNINA9910786298203321

Autore

Foster Karen R.

Titolo

Generation, discourse, and social change / / Karen R. Foster

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Routledge, , 2013

ISBN

1-136-66237-5

0-203-58387-6

1-299-16109-X

1-136-66230-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (191 p.)

Collana

Routledge advances in sociology ; ; 94

Disciplina

303.4

Soggetti

Generations

Age groups

Social change

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Constructing generation -- Questions, concepts, data and methods -- Generation as discourse in working life stories -- Generational discourses and relating to work -- Why now? explaining generational discourses around work -- Explaining generation as discourse -- Conclusion: generation and work as we know it.

Sommario/riassunto

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 a