[1] September 16 - Generations
Section outline
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Assigned reading:
Karl Mannheim, "The problem of generations," in Essays on the Sociology of Knowledge (1952 [1927]), 276-320.
Additional resources:
Stephen Lovell, “Introduction,” in Generations in Twentieth-century Europe (2007): 1-18.
Stephen Lovell, "From genealogy to generation: The birth of cohort thinking in Russia," Kritika 9 (2008): 567-594.
Robert Wohl, The Generation of 1914 (1979).
Please make an effort to complete the reading in time for the first class meeting!