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Kevin Munger - Why Do Baby Boomers Still Dominate Politics and Culture?

The Curious Task

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Generational Consciousness

i wanted to connect what we were just talking about thereh with the concept of generational consciousness, this idea that people are now internalizing the way they're described. This question was taken up bythe legendary german sociologist, karl manheim in the 19 twenties. And so he's tryieng to figure out why certain groups of people who were born at the same time develop this generational consciousness and certain other groups do not. It seems like simply having the same birthday as somebody is not enough to generate generational consciousness. You also have to have a pisalient share experience of the world.

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