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GENERATIONS IN
AMATEUR ARTS ??
Andries van den Broek
Active Cultural
Participation in Europe
Ghent, June 8-10, 2011
GENERATIONS
in families
transfer / socialization
in society
similarities / differences
GENERATIONS in families
transfer of capital
economic
social
cultural
genetic
GENERATIONS in families
as the old sing, so .... ???
factor 2
chances of involvement in active cultural participation
are about twice as high if parents are involved
GENERATIONS in society
CREATIVE DESTRUCTION (Schumpeter)
a process of ongoing innovation,
in which successful new techniques
destroy (replace) the old
GENERATIONS in society
AUGUSTE COMTE (a century before!):
social progress essentially depends on death
generation replacement / social metabolism
GENERATIONS in society
KARL MANNHEIM: ‘formative period’ in youth,
in which people acquire a world view
that influences them the rest of their life
people grow up in different times
people acquire different world views
cohorts/generations differ from each other
GENERATIONS in society
deceptive charm
attractive categorization
face value recognition
but often little empirical justification
GENERATIONS in society
the three faces of time (three influences on who I am)
age:
how old am I ??
cohort:
when did I grow up ??
period:
what year do I live in now ??
GENERATIONS in society
every generation ages, moves through life course
every generation lives through historical time
do generations still have specific characteristics ??
any how: “50+ generation” is a contradiction in terms
GENERATIONS in society
amateur arts and age:
lifecycle: decrease 40-65 and 65+
amateur arts and cohort:
post-war more active than pre-war
post-war less organized than pre-war
GENERATIONS in society
in conclusion: concept of generations
attractive
deceptive
only partially empirical reality