Generations Of Sociologists Research Articles

Generations, events, and social movement legacies: Unpacking social change in English football (1980-2023).

This article critically employs the case of association football in England, from 1980 to 2023, as a social movement timescape, to examine the political consciousness and long-term mobilisations of a generation of football supporter activists, and their capacity to influence politics, and respond to new, emerging, critical junctures, through networks of trust and shared memories of historical events. This is of crucial importance to sociology because it reveals the tensions between what are considered legitimate and illegitimate social practices which characterise contemporary society's moral economy. Focusing on temporal contestations over regulation, policing, governance and cultural rituals, the article deconstructs the role of generations in social movements, and critically synthesises relational-temporal sociology and classic and contemporary work on the sociology of generations, to show how legacy operates as a multifaceted maturing concept of power and time. In English football's neoliberal timescape, the supporters' movement has reached a critical juncture; the future will require a new generation of activists, to negotiate, resist and contest the new hegemonic politics of social control and supporter engagement.

Projecting the Future Ageing Population in Post-2045: The Today’s Millenials Perspectives

Indonesian elderly population in 2045 is projected to be 275% compared to 2015, in which elderly population are embedded with vulnerability and dependence as natural traits. Meanwhile, most of the elderly post-2045, millennials as the primary candidate, are predictedto have better capabilities than the nowadays elderly. Most literature, including lesson learnedfrom countries that experience ageing population, mainly discusses ageing from past or present phenomena. There are still missing links in considering the younger generation as the primary candidates for the ageing population in the future. Thus, how does millennials’ competitivenessas the primary candidate generation of the ageing population post-2045, and how far is the feasibility of social security for the elderly population, particularly regarding system and reliability. This research uses explanatory sequential mixed methods, in which quantitative attains initial results and then qualitative stage builds on these results. This study follows the framework of sociology of the future and sociology of generation. The challenge in 2045 is not about the demographic shift, but it presents the complexityof a new society in future. Considering the competitiveness of millennials, Indonesia may experience the second phase of the demographic bonus since the elderly post-2045 can contribute economically. Meanwhile, most current social assistance for the elderly is unreliableregarding the targeting and distribution system. Besides, the rapid growth of an ageing population is disproportionate to the slow growth of beneficiary coverage and pension contribution schemes. Some practical ways can be introduced and implemented in the short term, particularly regarding some issues: retirement age, dependency ratio framework, job field for elderly, the digital productivity, non-state welfare provision, and pension funds for informalworkers.

“It’s not so much the Radius, but rather the Orbit that Matters”: on Professor Batygin’s Style of Scientific Communication. Interview and publication of letters prepared by D.M. Rogozin

This interview is dedicated to Gennady Semyonovich Batygin, a scientist renowned by several generations of sociologists in Russia. His intellectual heritage consists of scientific articles, texts of editorial introductions to scientific monographs, a textbook on the methodology of sociological research, and Russia’s leading sociological journal. His intellectual heritage also includes a system of values, norms, rules for the production of sociological knowledge, which Batygin passed on to his students and colleagues in personal communication and was absorbed by his students. The interview cites a sociologist’s experience working under the guidance of G.S. Batygin in a sociological research project on Russian entrepreneurship in the 1990’s. It speaks about collaboration with Batygin in working on a PhD dissertation in sociology with him as the academic advisor. The influence of Batygin’s professional and moral authority over those who had the opportunity to study with him is discussed, as well as how the scientific ethos can be expressed in personalities and passed on to the next generation. The letters show Batygin’s unique style of interaction with graduate students. This style is distinguished by: collegiality in work, teaching a graduate student a specific set of rules, the norms of the sociological craft, involvement in open and at the same time responsible self-regulating professional activity.

Time as a key aspect of historical sociology

This article is a review of Jiř ubrts book The Sociology of Time: A Critical Overview (Cham: Palgrave Macmillan/Springer; 2021. 283 p.). The author places this work in a broader context of previous books by ubrt in order to show that all these publications analyze the past and contemporary sociological theories, and focus on historical sociology and the conception of sociology as a science on social processes. ubrt considers time in the context of the long-term development of knowledge, in which efforts have been made to control and master it. He also conducts a critical analysis of the views of previous generations of sociologists who developed ideas about the nature and functions of time. ubrt examines different fields of the so-called sociology of time; however, his main interest is the temporalized sociology such as theories of Niklas Luhmann and Anthony Giddens, but especially the conceptions in the field of historical comparative sociology, which combine the object of sociological research with long-term historical processes. According to ubrt, the basic aspect of time that should be decisive for sociology is its irreversibility associated with the idea of an open future.

Existence theory revisited: A reply to our critics

In this essay, we provide a comprehensive reply to the critical commentaries by David Inglis, Thomas Kemple, William Outhwaite, Simon Susen, Bryan S. Turner, and Robin Wagner-Pacifici. Our reply is structured along three main pillars. Firstly, we clarify what we aim to achieve with existence theory. Drawing on neo-pragmatist philosophy, our aim is to present a new and useful perspective on a wide range of social phenomena; we do not attempt to tackle or resolve broad philosophical issues. Secondly, we demonstrate that we do not subscribe to an algorithmic notion of society which posits that people’s trajectories have to fit a neat, linear pathway. Related, we do not wish to impose a normative model that endorses the existential milestones that are dominant in any particular society. Thirdly, building on various helpful pointers from our critics, we elaborate on various ways in which the theory could be enriched and further developed: for instance, by bringing in insights from the sociology of generations, critical theory, and sociological studies of the body.

The ‘Boomer remover’: Intergenerational discounting, the coronavirus and climate change

Based on an analysis of Twitter data, this article examines the appearance of generational ideas in the ways that people have defined the experience and significance of the coronavirus and climate change, as well as related them to each other. I characterize the narrative frame as one of intergenerational discounting: a description of breakdown in reciprocal obligations of care, giving rise to accusations of hypocrisy, expressions of resentment and rage, and the description of the virus as the ‘Boomer remover’. This frame normatively licenses withdrawal from intergenerational action in pursuit of collective objectives, as well as erases the disproportionate negative effects of crisis conditions on those facing intersecting intragenerational disadvantages. In addition to analysing a strategic but thus far unexplored data source for social problems theory and the sociology of generations – tweets – the article contributes to this scholarship by demonstrating how generational ideas work to morally link different conditions to each other.

Generational Change in Religion and Religious Practice: A Review Essay

Background Numerous studies have been done of the religious affiliations, beliefs, and practices of the Millennial generation (North Americans born between 1980 and 1995). Many of these studies assume that their findings will be useful to denominations and congregations wishing to attract more young people. But at least one influential social theory would imply the opposite: that religious decline is inevitable as societies modernize and secularize. Purpose The current essay suggests a useful addition to the religious decline theory, the work of Karl Mannheim and his followers on the sociology of generations, and applies it to the major studies of generational change and continuity in religious practice among young adults in present-day North America. Methods In total, 35 academic books, 43 articles in refereed journals, and 22 denominational research reports are included in the analysis. Only works studying the religious beliefs, practices, and affiliations of the Millennial generation in the United States and Canada, and based on data collected through approved social science research methods are included. Results The essay first summarizes the findings of the studies, noting similarities and differences in religious decline across the various social locations of race, gender, and country. Next, it summarizes the causes that the various studies have postulated for this decline, relating them to Mannheim's argument that the “fresh encounter” with one's childhood religious worldview which occurs in young adulthood is a key determinant of whether a person accepts or rejects his/her childhood religious socialization. A final section evaluates the effectiveness of the suggestions that some of the studies make for stemming or reversing religious decline in young adulthood, in the light of Mannheim's theory. Conclusions and Implications A key determinant of religious affiliation, belief, and practice in adulthood is the fresh encounter that young adults have with the culture and worldview transmitted to them in childhood. The lifecycle stage of emerging adulthood poses a challenge to denominations and congregations since it is often the age group that is least connected with organized religion. The essay concludes with suggestions for further research.

Rīgas Stradiņu universitātes Socioloģijas katedras devums Latvijas izglītībai, zinātne un sabiedrībai

The article offers an overview of the activities of the Department of Sociology of Riga Stradins University during its existence in 1998–2020. The article states the aims of the Department, lists the implemented study programmes in sociology, law and psychology, as well as describes the development of the Department during its existence. It should be noted that the Department has played an important role not only in research and teaching the new generations of sociologists and psychologists, but also in scientific expertise.

Beyond millennials v baby boomers: Using kindness to assess generationalism across four age cohorts in Australia

Today’s young people (youth and young adults) are routinely understood in generational terms, constructed as narcissistic and selfish in comparison with their predecessors. Despite announcements of a weakening commitment to values of kindness and generosity, there is little empirical research that examines these trends. The Australian Survey of Social Attitudes shows that young people are more likely to be kind but are less likely to think most Australians are kind. This article investigates this tension using focus groups with Australians of different ages (corresponding to major generational groupings) and drawing on the sociology of generations. To differentiate between generation, period and age/life-cycle effects requires longitudinal methods. However, these qualitative data suggest that a ‘generationalist’ discourse of young people as narcissistic is powerful in Australia and that young people are both internalising and challenging this framing. They appear to be responding to common experiences of growing up with the social and economic uncertainties of an ‘until-further-notice’ world and express strong support for values of kindness and openness to difference.

Intergenerational dialogue and positioning change in dealing with racism: Ethiopian Jews in Israel, thirty years after the immigration

ABSTRACT How do immigrant’s children cope with racist hegemonic discourse? To what extent, is their response effective? The article addresses this issue through an exploration of the identity and positioning strategies of children of 100,000 ‘Black Jews’ who immigrated to Israel from Ethiopia at the end of the last century. Drawing on the sociology of generations, we show that members of the second generation of Ethiopian immigrants developed a different identity and a contradictory positioning strategy to that of the 1.5 generation, while both failed to reduce racism in Israel. Contrary to Karl Mannheim’s linear theory, we argue that intergenerational encounters produce a new identity and a new positioning strategy that may be effective in creating social change. It was only through massive demonstrations in the year 2015 that intergenerational dialogue was created, leading to a new positioning strategy that proved to be effective in undermining racist hegemonic discourse.

Debating Capital and Ideology: An introduction to the special issue.

Debating Capital and Ideology: An introduction to the special issue.

La consagración intelectual en la sociología argentina tras la recuperación de la democracia: un análisis de la publicación en revistas político-culturales

Este trabajo toma por objeto el proceso a través del cual las revistas político-culturales se erigieron como un modo de consagración intelectual de la sociología argentina durante el exilio y tras el retorno de la democracia. Considerando las diferentes facetas de su publicación, se propone comprender las redes que unieron a estas revistas con la sociología argentina y el modo en que la autoría intelectual propia de estas revistas incidió en la producción de los sociólogos en un contexto de reconstrucción del campo cultural local, prestando especial atención a las trayectorias de publicación de influyentes figuras como Juan Carlos Portantiero y José Aricó. El análisis se centra en las relaciones entre este tipo de publicaciones y el campo editorial. Finalmente, se subrayan algunos rasgos del declive de las revistas político-culturales, a pesar del reconocimiento que habían logrado en las nuevas generaciones de sociólogos formados en la democracia.

Towards a Reference Framework for Generational Analyses on Information Technology Professionals

In light of the sociology of generations, this theoretical trial relates literature on information technology (IT) professionals, IT professional management, IT project teams, and generational studies to elaborate a reference framework that supports the research on the intergenerational dynamics of the field. The proposed framework offers a definition and structure for the concept of IT generation and contemplates the dimensions related to (1) technological contemporary changes, (2) culture bearers, (3) continuous nature of generational change, (4) generational succession, (5) knowledge transmission and sharing, and (6) intergenerational conflict, allowing future empirical research on the IT generational phenomena.

The Generational Dimension in Transitions: A Theoretical Review

The aim of this article is to question the notions of ‘generation’ and ‘transitions’ from a theoretical perspective by making a brief historical incursion into the sociology of generations. This review will explore the latest ideas on youth transitions to establish theoretical bridges between the different authors, and between the classic and modern approaches. It also takes a deeper look at an emerging theoretical model that seeks to connect these two important issues, transitions and the notion of generation. The debate focuses on how youth transitions are conceptualised from a micro perspective as individual and individualised processes, underlining the idea that they are based on specific macro concepts of ‘youth’ in generational terms. The concept of social generation allows the micro aspects of transitions to be associated with the historical situation in which they occur. This theoretical approach proposes that young people’s transitional behaviours are subject to the mechanisms of intergenerational change, but also notes that transitions can be differentiated according to the position they occupy in the social structure. In summary, this article supports the idea that youth transitions are different in their manifestations, although they may have a similar generational basis. The aim is therefore to introduce a broader theoretical view that includes the predecessors and successors of the classics, and serves as a point of departure for an approach designed to understand the formats of the new ‘youth status’, and hence, offer a more accurate scientific explanation for examining the overworked notions of generation and transition.

Of “old” and “new” ways: Generations, border control and the temporality of security

Whether it insists on the significance of anticipation or interrogates the centrality of pre-crime to security practice, current scholarship misses how security professionals make sense of their work’s temporality. Borrowing its theoretical tools from the sociology of generations and evaluation, this article focuses on how Canadian border officers rely on generational categorizations to negotiate change in their work. It proposes exploring the coexistence of competing temporalities in border control through the notion of generational borderwork. Produced by different paths of professional socialization and embedded in tensions over social status in ports of entry, generational borderwork makes more explicit the security field’s logic of aging, the internal dissensions over policing methods and the decisions these differences sustain. Whether it concerns nostalgia for economic protectionism or disagreements over the respective value of intelligence, technologies and interview skills, the contested nature of time in border control invites investigation into officers’ transforming policing sensibilities.

The making of 'Boomergeddon': the construction of the Baby Boomer generation as a social problem in Britain.

High-profile claims about the problem of the 'Baby Boomer' generation, made in media and policy circles in recent years, have contributed to an awakened interest in the sociology of generations. While many claims focus on resource issues arising from the existence of a relatively large cohort (for example, pensions and healthcare), they contain an implicit moral critique of the generation associated with the postwar 'boom' of the Sixties. This article examines the development of the cultural script of the Baby Boomer problem in British newspapers over a 26-year period, to examine how shifts in the discourse about the Boomer generation relate to wider social, economic, cultural and political trends.

IT-сопровождение историко-социологического проекта Б.З. Докторова

The article presents structure and internal organization of electronic editions prepared as part of B. Z. Doktorov’s Russian sociology history project. It shows features and advantages of working with two electronic products: The book titled “Resume interview with fellow sociologists” and CD version of nine-volume edition titled “Sociology in modern Russia: Historic-biographic search”. Both products can be found online. The online book by Doktorov includes more than 140 interviews with Russia’s sociologists who represent all current generations. The article notes that to ensure convenience while working with this vast material there are several types of tables of content. They allow the user to search the information by various search parameters: by alphabet, by generations of sociologists, by place of work, and by directions of research. It says where one can find basic information on every respondent and how and what for one can use an interactive gallery of respondents. It provides description of the CD version which includes interviews published in the online book, and also many works by Doktorov concerned with history of modern Russia’s sociology. First of all, these works include the previously published books and articles on methodology of historic-biographic researches. They also include books, brochures, articles and feature-stories concerned with a number of famous Russia’s sociologists. It describes the navigation through the edition, includes navigator and authors index; it also highlights title formation features in PDF files.

Class, gender and generation matter: using the concept of social generation to study inequality and social change

This article highlights how concepts from the sociology of generations can facilitate new understandings of the processes by which social inequalities are made and perpetuated in the lives of young people. There is a tendency in some youth research for inequality to be conceptualised too simplistically, as a process of reproduction that remains stable over time. Hence, continuing inequality is weighed as evidence against theories proposing social change. Using the sociology of generations, the article argues that social change and new risks are not facades behind which more real, and long-standing, forms of inequality are hidden, but are central to the way inequalities, including but not only by class, gender and race, are made in the conditions facing emerging generations of young people.

Communities of memory and the problem of transmission

In this article we explore the issue of memory transmission by considering it along the two temporal planes on which it occurs: vertically, through time; and horizontally, in time. It is because we regard memory transmission as involving the mutual interaction of these two planes that we introduce the concept of the mnemonic imagination. The value of the concept is that it enables us to see, inter alia, how communities of memory emerge. Our route into this is the sociology of generations and most particularly the evidence of mnemonic transmission provided by second-generation Holocaust narratives. The purpose of the article is to bring together a range of work relevant to the sharing and inheritance of memory across and within time, to explore the application of collective mnemonic frames in processes of personal remembering, and so move us closer to understanding the mechanism by which experience derived from others becomes integrated into our own life-stories.

Popular music as an anticipation, “framing” and construction of generational memory of the 1968 students’ protest in Yugoslavia

By focusing on the role of music within a certain political event - in this case, the students? protests in Yugoslavia in June 1968 - I connect the sociology of music with the sociology of social movements as defined by American writers Ron Eyerman and Andrew Jamison. Moreover, I suggest further research based on the sociology of generations. I insist on the cultural basis of social movements, as argued by these Yale-educated sociologists. Contrary to the typically onesided or negative evaluation on the consequences of the 1968 protests on the further development of Yugoslav society, I discuss the importance of this crucial year on the history of Yugoslav rock music and the students? lifestyle. I argue that the entertainment institutions in Yugoslavia, including rock?n?roll, pop and jazz music, as well as the amateur folklore societies, were crucial for the selfidentification of the protagonists of the 1960s student protests, and not only the students? political choices. Music anticipated and accompanied the 1968 protests, and later helped in constructing the memories on these protests. Music is singled out as the object of study based on the analysis of a vast body of archival material and the participants? testimonies, in which the music could be observed as the only constant parameter in the process of constructing collective memory to the 1960s in Yugoslavia and the 1968 events. I discuss music in the context of social movements for the sake of analyzing the multiplicity of music?s meanings for various social groups. Music is seen outside of institutional frameworks. Bearing in mind the lack of literature that deals comprehensively with the lifestyle of the youth at that time, including their musical preferences, I used various secondary sources.