Generations and Ideological Change: Some Observations |
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| Authors: | ROBERTS, CARL W. LANG, KURT |
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| Affiliation: | Carl W. Roberts is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology and the Department of Statistics, Iowa State University. Kurt Lang is Director and Professor, School of Communications, University of Washington. An earlier version of this article was presented at the American Sociological Association in Detroit, September 1983. The authors are grateful to Andrea Tyree and Katherine Williams for their helpful comments. |
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| Abstract: | The recollections of 28 cohorts of college graduates—allof them former recipients of Woodrow Wilson Fellowships forgraduate study—of historical events between 1945 and 1971and their participation in activities specifically associatedwith the peace movement and student activism of the 1960s werebrought to bear on Mannheim's theory of generations. The analysissuggests proportionately greater sensitivity to the events ofthe 1960s among those who reached the age of 20 near the middleof the decade, a finding that bears out generational theory.But despite this apparently heightened sensitivity among thosethe fight age at the right time, the effect of these recollectionsand experiences on attitudes expressed in 1973 was consistentlyovershadowed by even stronger attitudinal effects attributableto an early commitment to activism. The latter was more closelyrelated to the family milieu than to having come of age politicallyin a particular historical period. The data were obtained froma mail survey of 1321 former Wilson Fellows. |
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