generational conflict
collocation in Englishmeaningsofgenerationalandconflict
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generational
adjective
uk/dʒen.əˈreɪ.ʃən.əl/us/dʒen.əˈreɪ.ʃən.əl/
relating to different generations (= groups of people or members of a family who are around the ...
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conflict
noun[C or U]
uk/ˈkɒn.flɪkt/us/ˈkɑːn.flɪkt/
an active disagreement between people with opposing opinions ...
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(Definition ofgenerationalandconflictfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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These revolutions were experienced by individuals as well as by the abstraction "society" and for them it often took the form ofgenerationalconflict.
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He is also sceptical of unexamined notions ofgenerationalconflict.
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The process could be the site of gender bias andgenerationalconflict.
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In the age stratification andgenerationalconflictapproaches, social difference and dimensions of conflict are seen to cleave around people's relations to work and welfare.
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Yet such conflict overlapped with broader,generationalconflict.
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So the debate actually turns on how we want to allocate resources over our life span, and turning it into agenerationalconflictis not a meaningful framework.
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A study of parental constraints on young women's leisure follows, which demonstrates thatgenerationalconflict, frequently emphasized in existing histories of youth, was only one aspect of parent-daughter relations.
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It also involvedgenerationalconflict.
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Furthermore, the introduction of elected municipal councils generated arenas of activity and possibilities for advancement for about a thousand junior politicians, and hence in part alleviated thegenerationalconflict.
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Generationalconflictwas probably the most important force opening societies to the action of the market.
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Counterculture is sometimes conceptualized in terms ofgenerationalconflictand rejection of older or adult values.
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Nor that they are so rebellious, because that would mean, for example, have agenerationalconflictwith their parents.
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Memphis's scorn also reflects a broadergenerationalconflicton the topic of resistance that came to a head in the 1960s.
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In the thirty years she lived there, she published numerous novels, short stories, children's books and essays that took up the theme of gender andgenerationalconflict.
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The history of popular music generates conflictual recognitions within audiences, not least across the generational conflicts and aspirations associated with different musical forms.
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It has agenerationalconflictbetween a young man and a decaying old man, in a melancholic background of a cast-off library where no one visits to rent a book.
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The age distribution in a decade or so will be such that we risk serious generational conflicts.
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Attention is also drawn to the generational conflicts that emerged in this political dispute.
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