LEADER 02875oam 2200697I 450 001 9910823871703321 005 20240131142200.0 010 $a1-136-66237-5 010 $a0-203-58387-6 010 $a1-299-16109-X 010 $a1-136-66230-8 024 7 $a10.4324/9780203583876 035 $a(CKB)2670000000331462 035 $a(EBL)1128320 035 $a(OCoLC)829461165 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000821970 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11474355 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000821970 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10755829 035 $a(PQKB)11693471 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1128320 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL1128320 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10660675 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL447359 035 $a(OCoLC)828511407 035 $a(OCoLC)809411223 035 $a(FINmELB)ELB139181 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000331462 100 $a20180706d2013 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aGeneration, discourse, and social change /$fKaren R. Foster 210 1$aNew York :$cRoutledge,$d2013. 215 $a1 online resource (191 p.) 225 1 $aRoutledge advances in sociology ;$v94 225 0$aRoutledge advances in sociology ;$v94 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a1-138-95233-8 311 $a0-415-81766-8 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aConstructing 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. 330 $aJust what is a generation? And why, if at all, does it matter? This book asks what generation means to ordinary people, arguing that generation is real and it matters, but not in the ways that we think. Generations are not groups of people who can be categorized and attributed with static, immutable and universal characteristics, nor are they reducible to cohorts, as is the tendency in much social research. Rather, the book reveals generation to be a social phenomenon and a mechanism of social change - as a constellation of ideas and discourses that explains what happens when ideas a 410 0$aRoutledge Advances in Sociology 606 $aGenerations 606 $aAge groups 606 $aSocial change 615 0$aGenerations. 615 0$aAge groups. 615 0$aSocial change. 676 $a303.4 700 $aFoster$b Karen R.$01646714 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910823871703321 996 $aGeneration, discourse, and social change$93993850 997 $aUNINA