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From Generation to Generation (Paperback, 2nd ed.)
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From Generation to Generation (Paperback, 2nd ed.)
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The republication of "From Generation to Generation"-almost half a
century after its first appearance in 1956-constitutes a good
occasion for a look at the way in which problems of youth and
generations developed in contemporary societies. In this brilliant,
pioneering effort, different approaches in the social sciences to
the analysis of these issues receive close scrutiny. Eisenstadt
reexamines these issues by including in this edition several new
chapters on this theme. New to this edition are essays on "The
Archetypal Patterns of Youth;" "Intellectual Rebellion and
Generation Conflict;" and "Youth, Generation Consciousness and
Historical Change." All of these articles shift emphasis from the
structural-institutional analysis presented in the original edition
of "From Generation to Generation" to the importance of cultural
definitions of youth and generations in radically different
societies. In a new introduction, "Sociological Analysis and Youth
Rebellion," Eisenstadt undertakes a historical as well as
analytical treatment of young people. He reviews decades of
alienation of the young, the rebellion of students, and more
generally, intergenerational conflict. His major finding is that
youth groups tend to arise in those societies whose integrative
principles are set aside from family and kinship relations. His
work now considers recent dynamic specifics of youth culture as
they relate to existing theory, the social and political policies
of institutional entrepreneurs as they attempt to bring youth back
into the fold of adult society, and the impact on society of the
ideology of rebellion. The author states that with the young, any
given situation of change opens up a variety of possibilities for
development of new types of institutional, organizational, and
behavioral patterns. Hence, in the crystallization of institutional
frameworks a crucial part is played by those people who evince a
special capacity to set up broad orientations to propound new norms
and to articulate new goals. The same, of course, applies to the
analysis of age groups and youth activities, which Eisenstadt
undertakes in this classic work. Professor S. N. Eisenstadt teaches
at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem and is frequently a visiting
professor at American universities. He is the author of "The
Political Systems of Empires," which won the 1964 McIver Award, and
which has been published by Transaction in a new paperback edition.
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