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X, Y, i Z. Teoria cyklów pokoleniowych Straussa-Howe’a w świetle wcześniejszych teorii
X, Y and Z Strauss’ and Howe's Theory of Generational Cycles in the Light of Former Theories

Author(s): Maciej Folta
Subject(s): History, Social Sciences, Sociology, Social development
Published by: Wydawnictwo Naukowe Uniwersytetu Marii Curie-Sklodowskiej
Keywords: generation; generational cycle; secular cycle; historiosophy; metahistory

Summary/Abstract: The aim of this paper is to familiarize Polish academic readers with hypothesis of secular cycle introduced by William Straussa and Neil Howe. In their book, The Fourth Turning: What the Cycles of History Tell Us About America’s Next Rendezvous with Destiny, authors propose to look at human generations succession as a cycle, during which some tendecnies and attitudes rise and fall. I will present the notions of the book compared to some classic theorists of generations, like, among others, Mannheim, Ortega y Gasset, Garewicz.

  • Issue Year: 8/2020
  • Issue No: 2 (16)
  • Page Range: 23-37
  • Page Count: 15
  • Language: Polish
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