Generations: The Time Machine in Theory and Practice

Generations: The Time Machine in Theory and Practice challenges the fragmented and diverse use of the concept of generation commonly found in the social sciences. Its innovative and exciting view of the field of generations stretches the sociological imagination away from its orientation towards the present and reconstitutes a fresh and dynamic way of seeing. It will be of particular interest to social theorists, anthropologists and sociologists of social history, consumption, identity and culture.