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Beyond Social and Family Generations

Sakari Taipale

subject

Intergenerational solidarityLife course approachIdentity (social science)Gender studiesSociologyTask (project management)

description

Here the theoretical foundations on which the arguments in the book are built are developed. The chapter begins by introducing the concept of generation as both a cohort-based and a family-based construction. A discussion then follows of how various forms of intergenerational solidarity and conflict shape the relationships between family generations. Particular attention is paid to the need for an approach that goes beyond any strict generational division and is more sensitive to the ways in which individual lives are interconnected through the use of digital technologies. To assist in this task, a post-Mannheimian approach to generational identity is outlined.

yearjournalcountryeditionlanguage
2019-01-01
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-11947-8_4