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Generations, Cohorts, and Social Change

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Handbook of the Life Course

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The transformations that occur via a succession of cohorts cannot, for basic demographic reasons, be equated to the product of a procession of “generations.”... this brute fact is a profound key to the understanding of social continuity and social change. Indeed, a characteristically human type of society might well be impossible were the demography of the species structured differently.

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