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Titre Générations, politique, culture. Les années soixante américaines
Auteur Bennett M. Berger
Mir@bel Revue L'Homme et la société
Numéro no 111-112, 1er et 2e trimestre 1994 Générations et mémoires
Rubrique / Thématique
Du concept de génération : aspects théoriques et méthodologiques
Page 35-50
Résumé anglais Bennett Berger, Generations, Politics and Culture : The 1960s in the United States The notion of generation is not as useful in the analysis of social movements as that of generational unit. Generational units are formed out of the ranks of the elites of a particular age group ; they then compete in the formation of generational identity. The confusion between age cohorts and the effects they produce has been caused in part by neo-freudians like Erik Erikson and Kenneth Keniston who celebrated youth and stages of human development. In doing so they tended to reinforce the existing tendency to pander to an already privileged age group.
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