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This chapter focuses on the concept of generation and similar attempts to capture an age group and a specific cohort’s social and cultural consciousness. Such attempts have a long history. Beginning with Mannheim’s classic concept of generations and generational units, we trace the discussions about generations and cohorts in various directions. There are, for example, clear relationships between attempts to identify market segments among young people and the use of the concept of generation. In this chapter, we try to redefine and reestablish the concept, attaching it to discussions about class, gender and intersectionality.
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Johansson, T., Herz, M. (2019). Generations and New Subjectivities. In: Youth Studies in Transition: Culture, Generation and New Learning Processes. Young People and Learning Processes in School and Everyday Life, vol 1. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-03089-6_3
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