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Explore the similarities and differences in the transfer of economic, social, cultural, and genetic capital between generations in families. Discover how involvement in active cultural participation is influenced by parental involvement. Examine the concept of generations in society, including the role of creative destruction, social progress, and the formative period in youth. Understand the three influences on individual identity: age, cohort, and period. Finally, investigate the relationship between amateur arts and age and cohort, and the partial empirical reality of the concept of generations.
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GENERATIONS IN AMATEUR ARTS ?? • Andries van den Broek • Active Cultural Participation in Europe • Ghent, June 8-10, 2011
GENERATIONS in families transfer / socialization in society similarities / differences
transfer of capital economic social cultural genetic GENERATIONS in families
as the old sing, so .... ??? factor 2 chances of involvement in active cultural participation are about twice as high if parents are involved GENERATIONS in families
GENERATIONS in society CREATIVE DESTRUCTION (Schumpeter) a process of ongoing innovation, in which successful new techniques destroy (replace) the old
GENERATIONS in society AUGUSTE COMTE (a century before!): social progress essentially depends on death generation replacement / social metabolism
KARL MANNHEIM: ‘formative period’ in youth, in which people acquire a world view that influences them the rest of their life people grow up in different times people acquire different world views cohorts/generations differ from each other GENERATIONS in society
GENERATIONS in society deceptive charm attractive categorization face value recognition but often little empirical justification
GENERATIONS in society the three faces of time (three influences on who I am) age: how old am I ?? cohort: when did I grow up ?? period: what year do I live in now ??
every generation ages, moves through life course every generation lives through historical time do generations still have specific characteristics ?? any how: “50+ generation” is a contradiction in terms GENERATIONS in society
amateur arts and age: lifecycle: decrease 40-65 and 65+ amateur arts and cohort: post-war more active than pre-war post-war less organized than pre-war GENERATIONS in society
GENERATIONS in society in conclusion: concept of generations attractive deceptive only partially empirical reality