Generational Consciousness, Narrative, and Politics - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Generational Consciousness, Narrative, and Politics write by June Edmunds. This book was released on 2002-11-19. Generational Consciousness, Narrative, and Politics available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. With the erosion of strong class theory, sociologists have recently started to look at aspects of social stratification other than class. One of the most interesting new areas of investigation is the sociology of generations. This book brings together the work of scholars who are making a major contribution to this new sociological interest. Through a combination of innovative theoretical and empirical studies, this book shows that an analysis of generations is essential to an understanding of major social, political and intellectual trends in the postwar period. Each author brings to the volume insights from their own area of specialism - with rich illustrative material spanning topics as diverse as African American identity and Spanish youth culture. Theoretical inspiration also comes from a range of traditions, including cultural and historical sociology; social interactionism; social and cognitive psychology and life course theory. However, a unifying thread emerges around questions about how generations should be conceptualized; the role of trauma generating generational consciousness; the relationship between auto-biography and generational identity and the nature of inter and intra-generational relationships. This volume, therefore, provides a lively contribution to debates about the nature of generations and a stimulating basis for further work in this area.
Generational Consciousness, Narrative, and Politics
Generational Consciousness, Narrative, and Politics - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Generational Consciousness, Narrative, and Politics write by June Edmunds. This book was released on 2002. Generational Consciousness, Narrative, and Politics available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Introduction: Generational Consciousness, Narrative, and Politics June Edmunds and Bryan S. Turner p. 1 1. Strategic Generations: Historical Change, Literary Expression, and Generational Politics Bryan S. Turner p. 13 2. Generations, Women, and National Consciousness June Edmunds p. 31 3. Intellectuals and the Construction of an African American Identity: Outline of a Generational Approach Ron Eyerman p. 51 4. Generational Consciousness, Dialogue, and Political Engagement Molly Andrews p. 75 5. Generational Consciousness of and for Women Susan A. McDaniel p. 89 6. Youth in the 1990s and Youth in the 1960s in Spain: Intergenerational Dialogue and Struggle Angela Lopez p. 111 7. Generational Consciousness and Age Identity: Three Fictional Examples Mike Hepworth p. 131 8. The Baby Boomers, Life's Turning Points, and Generational Consciousness Tommi Hoikkala and Semi Purhonen and J.P. Roos p. 145 9. Nowa Huta: The Politics of Post-Communism and the Past Peggy Watson p. 165 Conclusion June Edmunds and Bryan S. Turner p. 179 Index p. 187 About the Contributors p. 195.
Politics and Cultural Nativism in 1970s Taiwan
Politics and Cultural Nativism in 1970s Taiwan - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Politics and Cultural Nativism in 1970s Taiwan write by A-chin Hsiau. This book was released on 2021-11-09. Politics and Cultural Nativism in 1970s Taiwan available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In the aftermath of 1949, Taiwan’s elites saw themselves as embodying China in exile both politically and culturally. The island—officially known as the Republic of China—was a temporary home to await the reconquest of the mainland. Taiwan, not the People’s Republic, represented China internationally until the early 1970s. Yet in recent decades Taiwan has increasingly come to see itself as a modern nation-state. A-chin Hsiau traces the origins of Taiwanese national identity to the 1970s, when a surge of domestic dissent and youth activism transformed society, politics, and culture in ways that continue to be felt. After major diplomatic setbacks at the beginning of the 1970s posed a serious challenge to Kuomintang authoritarian rule, a younger generation without firsthand experience of life on the mainland began openly challenging the status quo. Hsiau examines how student activists, writers, and dissident researchers of Taiwanese anticolonial movements, despite accepting Chinese nationalist narratives, began to foreground Taiwan’s political and social past and present. Their activism, creative work, and historical explorations played pivotal roles in bringing to light and reshaping indigenous and national identities. In so doing, Hsiau contends, they laid the basis for Taiwanese nationalism and the eventual democratization of Taiwan. Offering bracing new perspectives on nationalism, democratization, and identity in Taiwan, this book has significant implications spanning sociology, history, political science, and East Asian studies.
Technological Trauma and Personalized Politics
Technological Trauma and Personalized Politics - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Technological Trauma and Personalized Politics write by Sophia C. Yeres. This book was released on 2013. Technological Trauma and Personalized Politics available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This thesis focuses on the political behaviors and attitudes of the Millennial generation (those born between 1981 and 1991 in the United States) , and discusses not only its specific civic characteristics, but what this new generation shows us about the formation of generational consciousness and the future of politics. Since cohort generations are examined based on an understanding that individuals occupying different life stages will be impacted differently by major historical events in ways that will persist throughout their lives, many prominent generational theorists have thought collective memory and cultural trauma useful lenses through which to explore the problem of generations. A theoretical framework which emphasizes the importance of these historical events in shaping the consciousness of a generation helps scholars to determine where one generation ends and another begins, thereby making the specific nature and impact of these events of great interest. For the Millennial generation, however, not only have the transmission and, therefore, the perception of these major historical events shifted with the introduction of social media, but the sudden rise and very ubiquity of these communications technologies serves for this generation as the functional equivalent of a traditional traumatic event, shaping the way Millennials perceive the world, participate in political life and the manner in which their generational consciousness is formed. I employ primary and secondary research and public opinion survey data to study the extent to which the Millennials' generational experience can be considered politically distinctive. I analyze qualitative data from ID interviews with 20 Millennials to explore trends in personal politics, social media use and generational experience to supplement the nationally representative quantitative data. Particular emphasis is devoted to social media's impact on the formation of generational consciousness and acceleration of personal politics. In sum, I argue that social media contributes to a rethinking of 1) our conception of traditional trauma and collective memory as the basis of the formation of generations and 2) the effect on traditional politics of the development and acceleration of the personalized politics to which new technologies have given rise among Millennials -- a generation with conscious experience of the world before and after the sea change wrought by these technological and social phenomena.
Generations, Culture and Society
Generations, Culture and Society - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Generations, Culture and Society write by June Edmunds. This book was released on 2002. Generations, Culture and Society available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "...the most important statement since Mannheim's classic work. It establishes a traumatic events theory of generations, and elaborates a model of generational conflict... All this is demonstrated through illuminating analyses... For Edmunds and Turner, generations rather than classes have shaped much of the 20th century and beyond." - Professor Randall Collins, University of Pennsylvania "...clearly establishes the relevance of generations as a key sociological concept for understanding cultural change today...an excellent book that offers students and academics a lively and up-to-date text on the role and significance of generations, with comprehensive coverage of social scientific debates." - Gerard Delanty, Professor of Sociology, University of Liverpool * What is the role of generations in social, cultural and political change? * How is generational consciousness formed? * What is the significance of inter and intra-generational conflict and continuity? Despite the importance of the concept of generations in common sense or lay understanding of cultural change, the study of generations has not played a large part in the development of sociological theory. However, recent social developments, combined with the erosion of a strong class theory, mean that generations need to be reconsidered in relation to cultural change and politics. Moving beyond Karl Mannheim's classical contribution to generations, this book offers a theoretically innovative way of examining the role of generational consciousness in social, cultural and political change through a range of empirical illustrations. On the grounds that existing research on generations has neglected international generational divisions, the book also looks at the interactions between generations and other social categories, including gender and ethnicity, exploring both intra-generational conflict and continuity and considering the circumstances under which generational consciousness may become more salient. The result is a key text for undergraduate courses in social theory, cultural studies and social history, and an essential reference for researchers across these areas, as well as gender, race and ethnicity.
