FRIENDS OR FAMILY. WHAT DO YOUNGER GENERATIONS THINK OLDER GENERATIONS NEED?

Transfer knowledge for younger generations

Introduction: Nowadays there is an important distance between generations in our society, especially between senior citizens and young people, who do not regularly live together. In addition, it has been demonstrated that the transfer of knowledge and experience, are the keys to sustainability of culture and tradition, as well as the transfer of values. In this context, it is necessary to promo...

How Generations Think: Research on Generation Z

The relationship between current generations and the ones that grow up has always been ambivalent . There are a lot of motivations behind the criticism such as threats, envy or simply pride in the fantastic achievements of a generation, but lack of knowledge might be an explanation as well. The environment including the scientific-technical conditions and cultural-economic relations which surro...

What Kind of Environment Do We Owe Future Generations?

The Maclagan family: six generations of service.

The Maclagans were a Scots family from humble origins who produced famous physicians and surgeons (two of them presidents of Royal Colleges), ministers of religion (including one archbishop and several missionaries), a director of the Victoria & Albert Museum, a famous anthropologist, many army officers, a leading Oxford historian, several town mayors and politicians. Their lasting legacies inc...

Politics across Generations: Family Transmission Reexamined

We use longitudinal data incorporating three generations of Americans to reevaluate the character and consequences of political socialization within the family. Findings about parental influence based on youth coming of age in the 1990s strongly parallel those based on youth socialized in the 1960s. As expected on the basis of social learning theory, children are more likely to adopt their pare...