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

Foster, Karen R. R.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1138952338 ISBN 13: 9781138952331

Publisher: Routledge, 2015

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.

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2015
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1138952338
• ISBN 13: 9781138952331
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 192