Abstract
In industrial societies the conflict of generations is a minority phenomenon. Until quite recently, indeed, the study of the social organisation of age in such societies was one of the great neglected themes of modern sociology. The one authoritative attempt to develop a sociology of generations, S.N. Eisenstadt's From Generation to Generation, is based mainly on the study of pre-industrial societies.1 So heavily was most research concentrated on factors of class and occupation that cross-cutting elements of social structure such as age and, again until quite recently, race, were all but ignored. In one or two fields, in the study of delinquency, popular culture and voting for example, research findings so plainly invited interpretation in terms of the sociology of age that a theory of generations was quite frequently called for. But when in the I96os industrial societies found themselves for the third time in the
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