Generations

I social media sono giunti alla soglia della maturità. Nei primi vent’anni di storia il loro numero è aumentato, i modelli comunicativi sono cambiati e sono nati nuovi assetti economici. I social media oggi sono naturalizzati e vengono percepiti come un aspetto scontato dell’esperienza quotidiana e della cultura. Per quasi tre miliardi di persone nel mondo.
Attraverso varie piattaforme comunicano: persone comuni, istituzioni, associazioni, imprese. Il loro raggio di azione non è più limitato alle relazioni interpersonali (pubbliche o private), ma arriva a toccare processi sociali importanti, come la rappresentazione della realtà, la circolazione delle informazioni o la comunicazione tra generazioni.
Il volume si propone di contribuire alla comprensione dei social media alla soglia della maturità, descrivendone nella prima parte vent’anni di storia, con particolare attenzione all’evoluzione tecnologica, comunicativa e culturale. La ricostruzione storica comprende anche un confronto tra le diverse fasi di studio e i loro intrecci con i discorsi sociali e mediali.
La seconda parte è dedicata a tre snodi del dibattito: la rappresentazione della realtà – i social media sono ormai uno strumento importante di diffusione di racconti (veri e falsi), ma sono anche il luogo in cui le narrazioni si costruiscono collettivamente nelle conversazioni tra utenti; la relazione tra ciò che è privato e ciò che è pubblico – i social media ne rimettono in gioco la definizione stessa, insieme a quella delle forme di controllo dei confini della nostra privacy; l’uso intergenerazionale – i social media non possono più essere, parafrasando il titolo di un film, un paese per giovani, piuttosto un ambiente multigenerazionale. Contribuiscono alla formazione delle generazioni più giovani e vengono interpretati e usati in modo diverso dai meno giovani, che vi applicano i modelli di comunicazione a loro più familiari. Muovendosi dalla storia all’attualità, dal quadro d’insieme all’approfondimento, il volume vuole raccontare una fase di sviluppo dei social media in cui, non più novità, sono divenuti parte della cultura di chi li usa.

Wayne Vucinic Book Prize 2007, "for the most important contribution to Russian, Eurasian, and East European studies in any discipline of the humanities or social sciences." 

Endorsement by Slavoj Zizek:

"Alexei Yurchak's Everything Was Forever, Until It Was No More immediately seduced me by its very title with a profound philosophical implication that eternity is a historical category--things can be eternal for some time. The same spirit of paradox runs through the entire book--it renders in wonderful details the gradual disintegration of the Soviet system from within its ideological and cultural space, making visible all the hypocrisy and misery of this process. I consider Yurchak's book by far the best work about the late epoch of the Soviet Union--it is not just history, but a pleasure to read, a true work of art." (Slavoj Zizek, author of In Defense of Lost Causes)

Abstract:

Soviet socialism was based on paradoxes that were revealed by the peculiar experience of its collapse. To the people who lived in that system the collapse seemed both completely unexpected and completely unsurprising. At the moment of collapse it suddenly became obvious that Soviet life had always seemed simultaneously eternal and stagnating, vigorous and ailing, bleak and full of promise. Although these characteristics may appear mutually exclusive, in fact they were mutually constitutive. This book explores the paradoxes of Soviet life during the period of "late socialism" (1960s-1980s) through the eyes of the last Soviet generation.

La montée d'un ethos contemporain du travail fondé sur l'épanouissement professionnel entre en contradiction avec les conditions concrètes du travail et de l'emploi. D. Méda et P. Vendramin invitent à repenser nos modèles d'organisation du travail, de gouvernance des entreprises et de progrès social. Recensé : Dominique Méda et Patricia Vendramin, Réinventer le travail. Paris, PUF, coll. Le lien social, 2013, 258 p.

Youth are coming of age in a digital era and learning and exercising citizenship in fundamentally different ways compared to previous generations. Around the globe, a monumental generational rupture is taking place that is being facilitated—not driven in some inevitable and teleological process—by new media and communication technologies. The bulk of research and theorizing on generations in the digital age has come out of North America and Europe; but to fully understand the rise of an active generation requires a more inclusive global lens, one that reaches to societies where high proportions of educated youth live under conditions of political repression and economic exclusion. The Middle East and North Africa (MENA), characterized by authoritarian regimes, surging youth populations, and escalating rates of both youth connectivity and unemployment, provides an ideal vantage point to understand generations and power in the digital age. Building toward this larger perspective, this article probes how Egyptian youth have been learning citizenship, forming a generational consciousness, and actively engaging in politics in the digital age. Author Linda Herrera asks how members of this generation who have been able to trigger revolt might collectively shape the kind of sustained democratic societies to which they aspire. This inquiry is informed theoretically by the sociology of generations and methodologically by biographical research with Egyptian youth.

How does cohort affect discourse about same-sex marriage? Existing
research shows that both cohort replacement and intra-cohort attitude change are
causing public opinion to liberalize, but it has not explained how and why members of
different cohorts develop distinct attitudes or how these phenomena vary within
cohorts. This article shows how the cultural analysis of social generational change
complements demographic studies of cohort replacement to create a more comprehensive
solution to Mannheim’s ‘problem of generations’. Qualitative analysis of interviews
with two cohorts of Midwestern Americans shows, first, how discourses emerge
based on the interaction of cohort and ideology in an informant’s cultural repertoire.
Further analysis shows that cohort shapes attitudes about homosexuality because of
the mainstream cultural construction of it that informants encountered when they
came of age. Finally, in an analysis of exceptional cases, I show that counter-cultural
immersion can insulate cohort subgroups from cultural change and that period effects
are challenging older liberals to change their pre-existing worldviews. I argue that the
analysis of social generational processes, which distinguish the ‘generation as an actuality’
from the cohort, is an essential complement to demographic analysis in generational
theory.

Das Familienleben ist immer noch von hohen Gewaltraten gekennzeichnet, obwohl Gewalt nun gesellschaftlich weitgehend geächtet und rechtlich sanktioniert wird. Wie sich elterliche Gewalt gegen ihre Kinder sowie Gewalt zwischen Partnern und Partnerinnen durch strukturelle Bedingungen und interaktive Dynamiken in der Familie erklären lassen, wird vor dem Hintergrund der existierenden, meist hochspezifischen und nur deskriptiven Literatur erörtert. Insbesondere soll aufgezeigt werden, warum es durchaus zutreffend ist, von einem "strukturell angelegten Gewaltpotential in Familien" zu sprechen; es wurzelt in ihrer Generationen- und Geschlechterordnung.

Family life is still characterized by a high rate of violence, although violent behavior has largely become socially despised and legally sanctioned. How parental violence against their children and violence between partners can be explained by structural conditions and interactive dynamics in the family is discussed against the backdrop of existing literature that tends to be only descriptive and to specialize in quite insulated aspects. In particular, it will be shown why the notion of a "structural potential for violence in families" is justified; this potentially violent structure of the family is rooted in its generational and gender orders.

Norms responsible for taking and playing the roles of adults have disintegrated in recent years, and being an adult no longer means the same. Stimulated by the development of the capitalist commercial culture, the transformation of the world of everyday life (in Western societies) has blurred borders and caused smooth transitions between childhood, youth and adulthood. Due to the new reality of socialisation, which has dynamically developed in recent years, the process of generation change modifies its character. Among the tensions between generations, coexistence and cooperation dominate, fuelled by market economy rules, and are now transferred into microstructural social reality. Meanwhile, the new generation is increasingly “isolating itself” by immersing in the benefits of virtual parallel spaces, which are “their” world, often incomprehensible to adults. This text is an attempt at the initial diagnosis of contemporary patterns of entering/not entering adulthood and the anomie within the generation change process.

Normy dotyczące pełnienia ról ludzi dorosłych w ostatnich latach uległy dezintegracji, a samo bycie dorosłym nie oznacza już współcześnie zbioru tych samych cech, co jeszcze stosunkowo niedawno. Stymulowane rozwojem kultury konsumpcyjnego kapitalizmu przemiany świata życia codziennego (społeczeństw Zachodu) spowodowały zacieranie się granic i płynne przejścia pomiędzy dzieciństwem, młodzieżowością i dorosłością. Proces zmiany pokoleń, dzięki kształtującym się dynamicznie w ostatnich latach nowym realiom socjalizacyjnym, również zmienia swoją specyfikę. Wśród napięć pomiędzy pokoleniami dominuje koegzystencja i kooperacja, które podsycają, przenoszone do mikrostrukturalnych subświatów, relacje o charakterze rynkowym. Nowe pokolenie natomiast coraz bardziej „izoluje się” zanurzając w dobrodziejstwach wirtualnych przestrzeni równoległych, stanowiących „ich” świat, nierzadko niezrozumiały dla dorosłych. Niniejszy tekst stanowi próbę wstępnej diagnozy współczesnych wzorów wkraczania/nie wkraczania w dorosłość oraz anomizacji procesu zmiany pokoleń.

The use of IT systems in modern accounting has become a necessity for all companies. The basic function of modern business organisations is the efficient management of information and knowledge. During decision-making processes, managers require reliable and accurate information. Managers, for both tactical and operational goals, must have data from functional areas, like accounting, production, marketing or procurement. A properly functioning information system in an enterprise ensures the flow of information between all systems and subsystems, and between an enterprise and its surroundings. The aim of this paper is to present IT systems used in the area of accounting in Polish companies. The purpose of this paper is to determine the motives of choice – which software is the best for using in the accounting subsystem of given enterprises. The used methods in this paper are a questionnaire, comparisons and explanation. Some theoretical approaches are examined by analysis of the surv...

Dieser Aufsatz befasst sich mit der Altersdarstellung in zwei beispielhaften Generationenromanen der deutschsprachigen Gegenwartsliteratur, Clemens Setz’ Die Frequenzen (2009) und Tilman Rammstedts Der Kaiser von China (2008). Drei Aspekte stehen im Zentrum der Analyse: Erstens ist in Einklang mit der soziologischen Forschung zu beobachten, dass Alter in der Gegenwartsliteratur nicht als bloße biologische Tatsache, sondern als soziale Leistung begriffen wird. Je nachdem, ob und wie gut diese Leistung erbracht wird, entwirft die Gegenwartsliteratur Bilder eines „guten“ und „schlechten“ Alter(n)s. Um die Problemstellung adäquat zu erfassen, werden zweitens spezifische diskurs- und wissensgeschichtliche Kontexte fruchtbar gemacht, denn Alter wird etwa in Abhängigkeit von Gender unterschiedlich funktionalisiert. Der Fokus unserer Untersuchung liegt auf „männlichen“ Alterungsprozessen, deren Prekarität in der Forschung zu aktuellen Generationenromanen noch kaum registriert wurde. Drittens zeigt die vorliegende Arbeit, dass das Alter mit gattungsspezifischen Schreibverfahren des Generationenromans der Gegenwartsliteratur assoziiert ist, insbesondere mit der „therapeutischen“ Narrativierung der Familiengeschichte.

A családi vállalkozások főként a mezőgazdaságban és a kereskedelemben jelentős számmal és értékkel rendelkeznek a kisebb közösségek számára. Kutatásunk a családi vállalkozások generációváltására hívja fel a figyelmet. Támogatást kívánunk nyújtani számukra, melynek segítségével ez a folyamat tudatosabban, tervezettebben és gördülékenyebben valósulhat meg. A tulajdonosok sokszor jelentős szakmai tudással, kapcsolati és anyagi tőkével rendelkeznek, de azzal a képességgel híján vannak, hogy ezt a tőkét milyen módon tudják átadni a leendő generációnak. Bemutatjuk a generációváltás jellegzetes lépéseit, folyamatait, illetve azok nehézségeit. Segítséget nyújtunk kutatásunkkal abban, hogy milyen tényezők átgondolása támogathatja a tulajdonosok évtizedeken át gondozott vállalkozásának átörökítését.

Based on young peasant narratives, this article analyses the sexual division of labour in rural areas, focusing on tensions produced by generational differences. Data obtained from four stages of  pedagogical workshops (2015-2016), using the life history methodology with 150 young people from two schools based in agrarian reform settlements in Paraná, show the impacts of gendered labour on the process of peasant youth socialization. The study provides evidence of generational conflicts in a shifting context, as well as the pedagogical and cultural impact stemming from access to systematic knowledgeand debates on the theme, especially, the revision of prejudices and the shift of discourses, practicesand attitudes towards gender equality, notably, through the agency of young peasant women.

Esperanto is neither an official nor a commonly spoken language anywhere in the world and, due to the limited number of people who speak this language from birth and who teach it to the next generation, the persistence of this speech community cannot rely on intergenerational language transmission. Based on a year of ethnographic fieldwork in France, mainly in Paris, this article explores continuities and discontinuities in the Esperanto community and movement by looking at how present-day young Esperanto speakers use the language online and through networks of sociability. In asking what is transmitted from one generation of Esperanto speakers to the next, and how new communication technologies impact the ways in which people use the language, I analyse how the concentration of speakers from different age groups around distinct technologies creates a segmentation in this community that leaves some issues incommunicable and hard to transmit. I argue that, on the one hand, engaging with Esperanto through Esperanto associations and, on the other hand, through social media and non-institutionalised gatherings, shapes different perceptions of the language, marking a shift from Esperanto as a forward-looking cause for activists to Esperanto as a tool for sociability and an intellectual game for language-lovers.

This article argues that the Ethiopian revolution was a generational achievement. Hence, its legacy and lasting social effects can be best examined through a sociologi- cal lens that highlights the intergenerational relations between the “revolutionary generation” of 1974 and today’s “restrained generation.” One of the significant legacies of the Ethiopian revolution is that it continues to instill fear in young people who are inclined to engage in politics. This culture of fear has grown out of the atrocious “Red Terror” period of the late 1970s, and continues in different forms to the present as political youth, including social media activists, are vulnerable to persecution. Even as the young generation attempts to create new platforms for political engagement, it remains under the heavy hand of the revolutionary generation. After nearly four decades, the methods of crushing youth political activism remain almost the same. This article seeks to offer insights into how Ethiopian youth pursue various strategies to deal with the structural impediments to their active political engagement.

Née entre 1981 et 1995, la Génération Y constitue aujourd’hui les “jeunes adultes” de nos assemblées. Mais quelles sont les spécificités de cette génération ? Qu’est-ce qui la distingue de la Génération X qui l’a précédée ? Sans jamais tomber dans des généralisations trop caricaturales, Nathalie Perrot nous invite à la découverte d’une génération complexe, mais pleine de vie. Une génération qui impacte en profondeur et durablement la société. Elle mérite que nous apprenions à comprendre ses ressorts, au lieu de présumer qu’elle fonctionne, pense et agit comme les générations précédentes. Pour la rejoindre avec la Parole de vie qu’est l’Évangile, l’Église ne peut se permettre d’ignorer ces évolutions. Mais, plus encore, dans la société d’aujourd’hui comme dans celle de demain, l’Église ne peut se priver des nombreux apports de la Génération Y.

Article examines perceptions of leadership of two different generations of Ukraine using Leadership Practice Inventory (LPI). Leadership practices accepted in certain societies correlate with the dominant culture and reflect its norms and expectations. This quantitative research project focused on adaptation of LPI and testing leadership concepts in Ukraine, a country with an interesting history and unique geopolitical location. The survey results showed peculiarities and differences of Ukrainian leadership perceptions of two different generations.

Der Beitrag entwickelt folgende zentrale These: Um 1900 'begann unsere Gegenwart‘ insofern, als in den Städten der Übergang in eine moderne Mediengesellschaft erfolgte.
Deren kompetenteste Nutzer waren Kinder und Jugendliche.
Bemühungen, die Heranwachsenden vor ‚Schmutz und Schund‘ zu bewahren, thematisierten zentral, dass die neue Medienumwelt Heranwachsenden den unkontrollierten Zugang zu Wissensbeständen eröffnete, die als „erziehungswidrig“ galten. Diese Konstellation besteht
in Grundzügen bis heute, und viele aktuelle Reaktionsmuster gehen auf den Schundkampf der Kaiserzeit zurück. Die Kulturanthropologin Margaret Mead hat ein Modell entwickelt, das den Konflikt um die Regulierung des Wissenszugangs in den historischen Wandel der Generationenbeziehungen einzuordnen ermöglicht.

A presença de crianças nas redes sociais na internet tem provocado uma série de questionamentos acerca dos benefícios e prejuízos que a relação entre infância, mídia e consumo pode trazer. Nesse sentido, este livro se debruça sobre os contextos históricos, sociais, políticos e culturais dos modos de vivenciar a infância na contemporaneidade, e busca entender que práticas e sentidos norteiam os processos comunicacionais de crianças conectadas.

Napjainkban a generációs problémák nem csupán az oktatási intézményekben, hanem a munkahelyeken is jelentkeznek. Az eltérő generációk eltérő szemléletet igényelnek az oktatás, képzés és a munkahelyi HR feladatok szempontjából is. Olyan új dimenziót képviselnek a digitalizációval átszőtt generációk egy-egy cég életében, melyre a menedzsment-főként a kisebb, nem nemzetközi vállalkozásoké-még nincs teljes mértékben felkészülve. Kutatásom azokra a funkciókra hívja fel a figyelmet, melyek eszközrendszert jelentenek a menedzsment számára. Már a célcsoport toborzására és kiválasztására megtervezett és jól bejáratott eszközöket is felborítja az új nemzedék. Amennyiben elhelyezkednek, úgy a kollégák közötti szemlélet, motivációs rendszer és karriermenedzsment okoz majd nehézséget. Minden olyan funkciót körüljárok írásomban, melyekre érdemes és hasznos figyelni ahhoz, hogy ne veszítsük el e generációt cégeinkből, sőt eszközként használjuk azt az innovációt, szemléletet, kreativitást, melyet erőforrásként nyújthatnak számunkra. A hazai és nemzetközi szakirodalom feldolgozásán túl a hazai mikro-és KKV-szektor szervezetfejlesztési folyamatain keresztül empirikus információkat is nyújtok az érdeklődők számára. Eredményem alapján megállapítható, hogy a generációk különbségei-megfelelő vezetői eszköztár segítségével-képesek fejleszteni a cégek szervezeti kultúráját, erősítik eredményességét és támaszul szolgálhatnak válsághelyzetben is. Fontos, hogy vezetőként megismerjük a generációk sajátosságait, kommunikációs eszközeit, motivációs sajátosságait és a rugalmas munkaidőre, minőségi eszközökre vonatkozó elvárásait. The new generation as a resource

Previous research has indicated that media technologies and media use form an important cultural glue within generations. Younger generations, in particular, have been noted to build their generational identity around the technology and devices that they use. We believe it is important to explore how generations and shared identities are constructed, especially in unusual circumstances that lead to in-depth self-reflexivity. The aim of this study was to see how the disruption of habitual social media use helps to outline the generational self-construction of young adults. We invited 19-23-year-old students (N=42) to disrupt their habitual media use by participating in a five-day social media detox and to reflect upon this experience in their social media detox diaries. By doing so, the young in our sample helped to self-narrate and construct their generation-al identity characteristic of present-day youth. Our findings indicate that many of the young participants, indeed recognized social media as dominant generational glue, and expressed annoyance and submissive resignation when looking at the practices of themselves and their peers, who were described in most cases as "addicted" to smart devices. Disruption from the norm of constant availability and affordances of social media offered the participants an outsider's look at their own everyday lives: seeing their peers engaged with technology and not being able to do the same enabled them to assume a reflexive attitude, contributing to the making of a generation and offered a novel perspective on both individual and generational media use. As people are increasingly encouraged to resist and self-regulate in the context of pervasive media, self-reflexivity-heavy social media detoxes can be used as tools for building resilience and can even unfold to become a part of the generational glue itself.

Technological developments have transformed the forms of communication that can have a major impact on the social structure. All these technological developments cause fundamental changes in the way of life of the individuals and there are serious changes in both the ways of interpreting life and personality structures. The primary aim of this study is to examine the perceptions of online government services amongst different generations. The research of this study was carried out on the perception of e-government services with a questionnaire applied to the X, Y, Z generations to measure the similarities and differences in their understanding of these services. As a result of the research, individual typologies formed by the digital use of governmental services, which are called pre-techno individuals, techno individuals and post-techno individuals and the characteristics of these generations in terms of e-government services usage are revealed.

Zusammenfassung Dieser Artikel zeigt, dass deutsche Nachkriegskohorten sich kaum in ihren Einstellungen unterscheiden, weder in Bezug auf Lebensziele noch in Bezug auf Sorgen oder gesellschaftliches und politisches Engagement. Diese Ko-horteneffekte werden unter Kontrolle von Alters-und Periodeneffekten mit bis zu 551.664 Beobachtungen von bis zu 76.161 Individuen des Sozio-oekonomischen Panels berechnet. Die Ergebnisse zeigen, dass von der Literatur postulierte Gene-rationsunterschiede zwischen der sogenannten Generation Y, X, den Babyboomern, den '68ern sowie der sogenannten Skeptischen Nachkriegsgeneration in Wirklichkeit kaum existieren. Weithin verbreitete Vorstellungen, wie Generationen sich in ihren Einstellungen unterscheiden, finden sich somit empirisch nicht bestätigt. Angesichts dessen sind Umfragen wie die Shell Jugendstudie wenig sinnvoll, ebenso wie eine Managementliteratur, die Ratschläge zum Umgang mit Generationenunterschieden gibt, welche empirisch nicht feststellbar sind. Abstract This article shows that cohorts in Germany after the Second World War hardly differ in what they consider important in life, what worries them and how they engage in politics and society. These cohort effects are calculated after controlling for age and period effects using upwards of 500,000 observations from more than 70,000 individuals in the German SocioEconomic Panel study. They show that differences, which the literature postulates between the so-called generation Y, X, the baby boomers, the generation of 68, and the so-called skeptical postwar generation hardly exist. This means that surveys such as the Shell Youth Study make little sense, as does a management literature that gives advice on how to handle generational differences that are not empirically identifiable. Keywords Age-Period-Cohort models · Karl Mannheim · Generation Y · Generation X · Babyboomer · Generation of 68 · Post war generation

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to outline the profile of Italian tourists belonging to the new generations: Millennials or Generation Y (approximately people born in the 1980-1995 period) and post-Millennials or Generation Z (approximately people born in the 1996-2010 period).
Design/methodology/approach – After reviewing some of the more interesting research on Millennials and post-Millennials, the paper will present the results of an unpublished online empirical survey conducted
on a sample of 200 Italian web users who agreed to participate. The questionnaire, administered via computer-assisted web interviewing system, consists of structured questions concerning the practices,
attitudes, emerging needs and use of new technologies that characterize Millennials and post-Millennials, with a special focus on tourism.
Findings – The research will consider the differences between the two groups, as well as possible differences within each group linked to other socio-demographic variables (such as gender and area of residence).
Originality/value – The paper addresses a series of innovative questions: what are the practices of Millennials and Post-Millennials as tourists? What are the needs of these generations that the tourist industry must respond to? How do new technologies support Millennials and post-Millennials in their tourism choices? What are the main differences between Millennials and post-Millennials?

This chapter analyses inter-generational differences and their dynamics in Estonia in 2002-2014, focussing on generational identity, social and cultural space, media use, civic and political activity and social positioning. The chapter is based on the Mannheimian sociology of generations, viewing social generations as being constituted according to their relation to historical and cultural time, and to the respective lifestyles underlying status-based social stratification. The analysis is based on the “Me. The World. The Media” survey data from 2002, 2011 and 2014.
The chapter demonstrates that age and/or generation has become one of the most significant markers of social inequality and lifestyle-based differentiation. Besides positioning within lifespan, adaptability to the changing social environment plays a role in inter-generational differentiation. As an example, the cohorts born in the late 1960s and in the 1970s experienced very rapid changes and different social conditions during their formative years, which may have fostered their openness to all kinds of innovation.
In general, younger generations have been able to adapt to rapid social changes, particularly to digitisation and social acceleration, more flexibly, swiftly and to a greater extent, while older generations have mostly remained faithful to habits and preferences they became used to during their childhood or youth. In some aspects (e.g. institutional political participation, cultural activity and the level of being informed), the greater inertia of older age groups has contributed to the maintenance of their capitals; in many other areas (e.g. extending social space as a personal resource, digital skills, participation in online political and economic fields, and consumption capabilities), younger age groups have had a remarkable head start that has led to a significantly higher self-evaluated social status in younger generations. The chapter concludes that generations structure the transforming society on the vertical as well as the horizontal dimensions and tend to de-synchronise the progression of age groups in social time-space. However, some counter-tendencies (inter-generational similarities and intra-generational variety) exist.

As far as an increasing number of scientists are warning us about the destructive potential of climate change, humanity is facing a tremendous technological revolution. Also, the potential of new technologies to decrease the carbon footprint is significant, but the transition is highly dependent on people's choices and behaviour. This is why, a new way of motivating people around the world emerged: gamification. But, as good and innovative this idea seems to be, as many concerns it rises. Because the focus is mainly on technology, in this paper I will analyse the process of gamification through the lens of the digital divide. The concept was first used in the 1990s to describe the social and economic gap that emerged between those who had access to Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) and those who did not. Today it is mainly focused on the possibility that people would become even more marginalized due to the lack of basic skills and the impossibility to afford the new technologies on the market. Consequently, my research question is: "Is it possible that the introduction of gamification in the field of transportation increases the digital divide?". I will try to answer this question by analysing what categories of people are targeted by gamification in transportation services and which are those that could be excluded. Also, my approach is not limited to a specific country or global area, but is considering gamification and digital divide at an international level.

Die Kontinuität und Wirkungsgeschichte des Nationalsozialismus sind nicht nur individuelle, sondern auch kollektive Angelegenheit. Wie kommt es dazu, dass die nicht persönlich erlebten Geschichten an die Nachkommen weitergereicht werden? Was wird weitergegeben: die Schuld, das Unbehagen, das Trauma? Welche Emotionen, Tabus, Konflikte gehen damit einher und wie können wir den Umgang mit diesen Aufträge sinnvoll und konstruktiv gestalten?

The COVID-19 Pandemic has become a major public health concern worldwide, which can impact environmental sustainability and social responsibility, as well as people's quality of life. In this context, environmental awareness, sustainable consumption and social actions of people have been effectively changed, as a period of quarantine, social isolation and health crisis caused by Pandemic has been experienced. This study aims to analyze the impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on environmental awareness, sustainable consumption and social responsibility, in the perception of Baby Boomers, X and Y generations, residents in Brazil and Portugal. The method used was quantitative research, of a descriptive character, through a survey applied to 3236 people, which was analyzed with the use of Structural Equation Modeling. The results indicate that COVID-19 Pandemic is an important vector in people's behavioral change, which reflects on environmental sustainability and social responsibility. It is noteworthy that the impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic had a greater influence on sustainable consumption , followed by environmental awareness, and to a lesser extent, on social responsibility. There was also greater relevance in Portugal, as well as the perception of the Baby Boomers generation. This study also provides a framework such as metrics to measure a transformational event, which is the COVID-19 Pandemic in socio-environmental aspects and conscious consumption.

This paper provides an overview the historical precedence and theoretical underpinnings of the generational cycle theory of William Strauss and Neil Howe, best known as the Fourth Turning. It also addresses its relevance to the history of the United States and its living generations.

‘This is the most desperate generation of Indians since Independence’ (24). Set at the crossroads of journalism and ethnographic studies, Snigdha Poonam’s first book is a harrowing account of aspirational youth grappling with their careers amidst uncertain landscapes. These are mainly shaped by rapid globalisation, the rise of Hindu majoritarianism, and the ‘3E’ phenomenon, or the lack of employment, employability and education (21). The author provides a captivating portrait of seven Indian youth from tier II and III cities (29) of the Hindi belt, who engage in a variety of professional activities often at the fringes of legality.

Nuestro estudio indica que la reforma de la Policía de la Provincia de Buenos Aires a cargo de León Arslanián alteró y con creces el curso normal de las prácticas policiales, lo que ellos reconocen como parte de la crisis y de la ausencia de dirección clara hacia el futuro. La imagen construida de los dinosaurios con sus relatos casi míticos sobre los verdaderos policías, es un reflejo de esta incertidumbre, su extinción señala la imposibilidad de su reproducción.  Pero, por el otro lado, al participar de la configuración de los quiebres generacionales internos, es decir de la visión de sí mismos como formando segmentos difíciles de integrar, e invocar un modo de ser policía y del saber hacer policial, la generación que comanda introduce estándares morales particulares. De este modo, en la división interna, reclaman la reimplantación de una especificidad de la vocación policial basada en el servicio y no en el trabajo. Sin embargo, en un contexto de fuerte depreciación del trabajo donde la flexibilización ha eliminado el escenario de la estabilidad laboral e implantado el del empleo múltiple, donde parece difícil escapar al trasvasamiento de  estas lógicas y las que introdujo el gobierno civil de la policía, los comandantes parecen buscar en la vocación un modo de resistir la crisis y orientar el futuro del oficio policial.

A német szakirodalomban „Alterslinguistik”-nek nevezett részdiszciplínához sorolható tanulmány (vö. Neuland 2012) a digitális kommunikáció ismeretét, használatát és az ahhoz kötődő, intergenerációs kommunikációs kapcsolatok és esetleges
problémák felmérését tűzte ki célul, 65 év feletti adatközlők interjús megkérdezésével.
A minta kis mérete miatt a vizsgálat eredményei nem általánosíthatók, ám mutatnak új irányokat a hasonló jellegű felmérések számára.
Összegezve megállapíthatjuk, hogy az általam vizsgált szenior adatközlők fele nem használ számítógépet; ám aki mégis, annak az internethasználatban rendszerint a két generációval fiatalabbak nyújtanak segítséget; és bár az egyik adatközlő esetében jellemző az e-mail és egyéb internetes szolgáltatások használata, az internethez két esetben is a Facebook közösségi oldal jelenti az ablakot. Mindannyian beszámoltak arról, hogy a digitális kommunikációval kapcsolatos témák esetén nem teljes értékűen tudnak részt venni a fiatalabbakkal történő beszélgetésben – ami a generációs gap meglétére utal.

Dear all,

Hope this email finds you well.

We are extremely happy to inform that the first session of the Cycle of Sociological Talks through Books and Movies of the Families and Life Course Research Network of the Portuguese Sociological Association will take place on February 2nd, at 4 pm (Lisbon Time).

Richard A. Settersten Jr.(Oregon State University) and Glen H. Elder Jr. (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) will provide us an insight on their latest book “Living on the Edge. An American Generation’s Journey through the Twentieth Century”(co-authored by Lisa D. Pearce and published by the University of Chicago Press) presenting and debating their remarkably relevant results for our understanding of today’s families and generations.




“Drawing from the iconic longitudinal Berkeley Guidance Study, Living on the Edge reveals the hopes, struggles, and daily lives of the 1900 generation. Most surprising is how relevant and relatable the lives and experiences of this generation are today, despite the gap of a century. From the reorganization of marriage and family roles and relationships to strategies for adapting to a dramatically changing economy, the challenges faced by this earlier generation echo our own time. Living on the Edge offers an intimate glimpse into not just the history of our country, but the feelings, dreams, and fears of a generation remarkably kindred to the present day.”


You can find more information about the book here.



If you’d like to attend, please sends us an email to [email protected] with your Name and Institution, so we can admit you in the zoom meeting.

Here’s the link to this zoom meeting: https://videoconf-colibri.zoom.us/j/85038436975
The Meeting’s ID is 850 3843 6975

Looking forward to seeing you at this exciting event!

Magda Nico, Vanessa Cunha and Cláudia Casimiro
(Co-coordinators of the Families and Life Course Research Network of the Portuguese Sociological Association)

Választ keresek arra a kérdésre, hogy hogy az információs társadalom magyarországi kiépülése, a számítógép- és internethasználat elterjedése hogyan befolyásolja a szabadidőben végzett tevékenységek rendszerét és a kulturális fogyasztás szerkezetét. Másrészt megvizsgálnom azt, hogy a tradicionális, biológiai alapon meghatározott generációfogalmak meghaladottá válása után született új elméletek felhasználásával definiált kommunikációs generációk egymástól való különbözősége mennyire érvényes társadalmunkban, különös tekintettel szabadidős orientációikra.
Kulcskifejezések: generációk, időmérleg, szabadidő, kulturális fogyasztás, internethasználat.

This article discusses from an inter-cultural and inter-generational perspective the relationship between ‘objective’ media landscapes and how they are subjectively perceived  among four different media generations. Based on a focus group study with media users in Sweden and Estonia of two tentative generations, the relationship between the ‘objective’ and ‘subjective’ media landscapes is analysed, as is how the landscapes produce nostalgia at the intersection of age, generation, life course and life situation. Based on the differences found in the cross-cultural and the cross-generational comparison, it is concluded that in relation to the formative years of the respondents, there are two different kinds of nostalgia produced: one individually based, focussing on childhood memories; and one social or collective, focussing on the formative years of the respondents.