Generational Effects: Past, Present, and Future

什么定义了“一代人”的集体身份？通常 人们认为，但很少系统地研究， 最近历史上的形成事件（如三十年代） 大萧条，越南战争或计算机化的 工作场所）的经历各不相同 然后活着。这个项目将复制和扩展过去的工作 关注世代对集体记忆的影响， 驱动这项工作的一般问题是， 不同世代的人有不同的记忆， 由公共事件塑造，如果是这样，当在他们的过程中， 生活中的事件是否给人留下了最深刻的印象或任何难忘的印象 一点印象都没有吗最近出版的作品由校长 调查人员在某个时间点确定， 政治事件的不成比例的影响 在青春期和成年早期，而不是在早期或 晚年这里提出的工作将复制结果 并进一步探讨事件的范围（政治，但也 科学和技术发展）， 真的，这种影响的解释和后果， 目前的态度和行动。 //

What defines the collective identity of a 'generation'? Commonly perceived but rarely studied systematically is the way in which formative events of the recent historic past (like the Thirty's depression, the Vietnam war or the computerization of the workplace) are differently experienced by various generations then alive. This project will replicate and extend past work concerned with generational effects on the collective memories of individuals.The general question driving this work is whether different generational groups have distinctive memories that are shaped by public eventsand if so, when in the course of their lives do events make their strongest impression or any memorable impression at all? Recently published work by the Principal Investigator has established, atone point in time, the disproportionate influence of political events occurring during the adolescence and early adult years, rather than in earlier or later years. The work proposed here would replicate the result and probe further into the range of events (political, but also scientific and technological developments) for which it is true,the explanations of this effect and the consequences for currentattitudes and actions. //