Rites de Passage

The Conflict of Generations in Industrial Society

Datos Bibliográficos

ID10076636
AutoresPhilip Abrams (autor de correspondencia)
Año1970
Volumen5
Número1
Páginas175-190
Fecha de publicación1970-01-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaJournal of Contemporary History (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0022-0094 • E-ISSN: 1461-7250
EditorialSAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/002200947000500112
OpenAlexW2070552996
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas16

In industrial societies the conflict of generations is a minority phenomenon. Until quite recently, indeed, the study of the social organisation of age in such societies was one of the great neglected themes of modern sociology. The one authoritative attempt to develop a sociology of generations, S.N. Eisenstadt's From Generation to Generation, is based mainly on the study of pre-industrial societies.1 So heavily was most research concentrated on factors of class and occupation that cross-cutting elements of social structure such as age and, again until quite recently, race, were all but ignored. In one or two fields, in the study of delinquency, popular culture and voting for example, research findings so plainly invited interpretation in terms of the sociology of age that a theory of generations was quite frequently called for. But when in the I96os industrial societies found themselves for the third time in the

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