From political to social generations: a critical reappraisal of Mannheim’s classical approach

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Autor(a) principal: Aboim, S.
Data de Publicação: 2014
Outros Autores: Vasconcelos, P.
Tipo de documento: Artigo
Idioma: eng
Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
Texto Completo: https://ciencia.iscte-iul.pt/public/pub/id/19147
http://hdl.handle.net/10071/9118
Resumo: Faced with the confused meanings of the concept of generation, this article defends the need to move from Karl Mannheim’s excessive emphasis on political and intellectual self-awareness as a pre-condition for generation formation to an enlarged social and cultural definition of generations. By developing the concept of social generations, we argue that rather than concrete groups, generations are better conceived as discourses with which individuals relate in order to build self-identification. Individuals living in similar historical contexts may share mental and practical dispositions, but must always position themselves in face of the narratives that have come to be dominant to describe a given generational location. Such a contention implies redressing Mannheim’s culturalist view through a reformulation of his hierarchical view of the scheme of generations. By replacing generation-units by dominant ideas, we contend that generations are better conceived as discursive formations in the Foucauldian sense.
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dc.title.none.fl_str_mv From political to social generations: a critical reappraisal of Mannheim’s classical approach
title From political to social generations: a critical reappraisal of Mannheim’s classical approach
spellingShingle From political to social generations: a critical reappraisal of Mannheim’s classical approach
Aboim, S.
Agency
Culture
Discursive formations
Generations
Karl Mannheim
title_short From political to social generations: a critical reappraisal of Mannheim’s classical approach
title_full From political to social generations: a critical reappraisal of Mannheim’s classical approach
title_fullStr From political to social generations: a critical reappraisal of Mannheim’s classical approach
title_full_unstemmed From political to social generations: a critical reappraisal of Mannheim’s classical approach
title_sort From political to social generations: a critical reappraisal of Mannheim’s classical approach
author Aboim, S.
author_facet Aboim, S.
Vasconcelos, P.
author_role author
author2 Vasconcelos, P.
author2_role author
dc.contributor.author.fl_str_mv Aboim, S.
Vasconcelos, P.
dc.subject.por.fl_str_mv Agency
Culture
Discursive formations
Generations
Karl Mannheim
topic Agency
Culture
Discursive formations
Generations
Karl Mannheim
description Faced with the confused meanings of the concept of generation, this article defends the need to move from Karl Mannheim’s excessive emphasis on political and intellectual self-awareness as a pre-condition for generation formation to an enlarged social and cultural definition of generations. By developing the concept of social generations, we argue that rather than concrete groups, generations are better conceived as discourses with which individuals relate in order to build self-identification. Individuals living in similar historical contexts may share mental and practical dispositions, but must always position themselves in face of the narratives that have come to be dominant to describe a given generational location. Such a contention implies redressing Mannheim’s culturalist view through a reformulation of his hierarchical view of the scheme of generations. By replacing generation-units by dominant ideas, we contend that generations are better conceived as discursive formations in the Foucauldian sense.
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