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Beyond the generational borders

Summary/Abstract: What does happen when we substitute the “generations” with “constructed identities”? Is it possible to draw a clear borderline between the identical biographical experience, the common cultural-historical background and the collective representations of a given social group? What kind of social cohesion and solidarity do the kinship metaphors articulate? How could we overcome the “routine” and inertia of the classical sociological and historical models? In trying to answer these questions the present article discusses the “problem of generations” in the terms of the social constructivism, the conception of social time and the identity theory. The Mannheim’s heritage is analyzed as a valuable epistemological basis for binding together the “semantic orders” of the culture circles (Michael Korsten) with “the places of memory” and “the centres of collective experience” (Pierre Nora). The main thesis is that the “generations” could be examined as public discourses and hronopolitics, which temporalize certain group ideologies and vice versa attach ideological meanings to different time units.

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