From Generation to Generation: Age Groups and Social Structure

by S. N. Eisenstadt

Overview

First published in 1998. This is Volume IX of the fifteen in the Sociology of Gender and the Family series and explores age groups and social structure from generation to generation. The purpose of this book is to analyze the various social phenomena known as age groups, youth movements, etc., and to ascertain whether it is possible to specify the social conditions under which they arise or the types of societies in which they occur. It is the m ain thesis of this book that the existence of these groups is n o t fortuitous or random , and that they arise and exist only under very specific social conditions. The authors have also attempted to show that the analysis of these conditions is not only of purely antiquarian or ethnological interest, but that it can also shed light on the understanding of the conditions of stability and continuity of social systems.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780415863469
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	05/16/2013
Series:	International Library of Sociology
Pages:	358
Product dimensions:	5.44(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)

About the Author

Professor S N Eisenstadt (Hebrew University of Jerusalem)

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 Age Groups and Social Structure: The Problem; Chapter 2 Some Types of Age Groups; Chapter 3 Age Groups in Nonkinship (Universalistic) Societies; Chapter 4 Specialization and the Structure of Age Groups; Chapter 5 Age Groups in Familistic Societies; Chapter 6 The Functions of Age Groups in the Social System;