Imagining Generations and Social Change

P. Hart-Brinson
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This chapter explains the generational theory of Karl Mannheim and enumerates five challenges that scholars face when studying generational change. It shows how these changes have impeded social scientific research on generations and why research on Millennials, Generation X, and other broad cohorts is flawed from its first premises. To counteract the existing generational mythology, this chapter outlines what is required to produce social scientific studies of generational change. Recent scholarship on the “social generation” provides a theoretical and methodological opening for finally solving Mannheim’s “problem of generations.” Building on cross-disciplinary scholarship on the cognitive and cultural dimensions of the process of imagination, this chapter argues that the “social imagination” is the key concept that helps explain how public opinion about gay marriage changed.
想象世代与社会变迁
本章阐述了曼海姆的代际理论,列举了学者在研究代际变化时面临的五大挑战。它展示了这些变化如何阻碍了对几代人的社会科学研究,以及为什么对千禧一代、X一代和其他广泛群体的研究从第一个前提开始就存在缺陷。为了抵消现有的代际神话,本章概述了对代际变化进行社会科学研究所需要的东西。最近关于“社会世代”的学术研究为最终解决曼海姆的“世代问题”提供了理论和方法上的突破口。基于对想象过程的认知和文化维度的跨学科研究,本章认为“社会想象”是有助于解释公众对同性婚姻的看法如何变化的关键概念。
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