Mannheim’s Problem of Generations as a Phenomenon of Cultural Change

Authors

  • Jutta Weingarten

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.22029/ko.2009.482

Abstract

Beate Fietze's monograph applies a sociological perspective to historical generations and their relation to social change. She is therefore active in the sociology of generations, a field dominated by Karl Mannheim’s theories, and points to the relevance of generation-theory for processes of social change. In doing so, Fietze puts her finger on a very up-to-date topic that has been continuously gaining importance in Germany since the 1980s. She analyses different approaches to generation-theories that mainly go back to Mannheim and develops them further to make them available to research in conjunction with the study of culture.

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Published

2009-10-31

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KULT_reviews

How to Cite

“Mannheim’s Problem of Generations As a Phenomenon of Cultural Change”. 2009. KULT_online, no. 21 (October). https://doi.org/10.22029/ko.2009.482.