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Outline the social factors related to generation gap. How has the generation gap led to the problem of youth unrest?

  • UPSC 1997
  • Systems of Kinship in India

A generation gap is produced, not given. Karl Mannheim argued in "The Problem of Generations" (1928/1952) that cohorts diverge only when historical change moves fast enough to deny the young a straightforward inheritance of their parents' world. India after 1947 supplied that pace, unevenly — which is why the gap here converts so readily into…

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  • Social factors that open the gap
  • How the gap becomes unrest
  • The Indian record
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