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Write short note: Generation Gap.

  • UPSC 2005, 1988
  • Systems of Kinship in India

The generation gap is a difference in values, tastes and authority between adjacent age cohorts sharp enough to generate social conflict. Karl Mannheim, in "The Problem of Generations" (1928/1952), supplied its grammar: a generation is not an age band but a generation location — a shared position in the historical process — which becomes a…

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  • When a generation becomes a social force
  • India as a prefigurative culture
  • Why sociologists dispute the gap
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