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Generation, Discourse, and Social Change

Just what is a generation? And why, if at all, does it matter? This book asks what generation means to ordinary people, arguing that generation is real and it matters, but not in the ways that we think. Generations are not groups of people who can be categorized and attributed with static, immutable and universal characteristics, nor are they reducible to cohorts, as is the tendency in much social research. Rather, the book reveals generation to be a social phenomenon and a mechanism of social changeas a constellation of ideas and discourses that explains what happens when ideas and ideals collide, and why some discourses flourish and take hold at particular times.

Karen R. Foster is a Banting Post-Doctoral Fellow in Management at Saint Marys University in Halifax, Nova Scotia.

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Social Change

Karen R. Foster

Generation, Discourse, and
Social Change

Karen R. Foster

First published 2013
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Foster, Karen R.

Generation, discourse, and social change / by Karen R. Foster.
p. cm. (Routledge advances in sociology)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

1. Generations. 2. Age groups. 3. Social change. I. Title.

HM721.F67 2013

303.4dc23

2012036650

ISBN13: 978-0-415-81766-0 (hbk)
ISBN13: 978-0-203-58387-6 (ebk)

Typeset in Sabon
by IBT Global.

For the fifty-two people who shared their time and trusted me with their stories.

Contents

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Acknowledgments

Thank you, Andrea Doucet and Janet Siltanen, for your consistent and caring support, balanced by keen and always constructive critique.

Thank you, Bruce Curtis: your comments and especially your encouragementwhich I like to think dont come cheapwere a source of motivation and confidence.

Thank you, Susan McDaniel. Im so glad I found your research and that you were so generous with your time and insight.

Thank you to my peers in the doctoral program at Carleton University: you provided the intellectual conversation and the social release every student and scholar needs.

Thanks to the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC): the doctoral funding I received for the final two years of this project went a long way.

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