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Huge amount of literature has been published in recent years on topic of generation researchbut of varying quality. There is a significant interest in the topic, although an increasing amountof contradictory and methodologically questionable results have come to light. People developprejudices and beliefs based on popular media, which could be counterbalanced by scientificworks, but there is a noticable amount of thorough criticism against them. It is still a question,whether generation is the proper response to certain phenomena or we have just "generated" itand most charachteristics are rather related to age or life span? Cautious research is complicatedand lengthy, therefore many either choose to perform superficial research or to go so in-depththat does not allow answering problems and return to just individual differences. Some concludeby refusing the generational approach altogether. In these circumstances a kind of "responsible"generational research is to be suggested, which turns from dead ends to the scientific way andfinally tries to find "ration in generations" keeping in mind all the criticism of the approach.I summerize cosiderations in my work to find this right direction.

Social Demography focuses on selected topics on social science research on population. The papers included in the book are compiled from a conference sponsored by the Center for Population Research, held at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in June 1975. The book compiles various findings in social and behavioral research. Chapters explore topics on trend analysis; the sociological meaning of age, and the social-psychological processes of reproductive behavior; analysis of certain aspects of the spatial organization of metropolitan activities; the changing racial stratification; and the futu

Introduction : literacy lives in transcultural times / Rahat Zaidi and Jennifer Rowsell -- Complicating literacies : settler ways of being with story(ies) on Wabanaki lands / Pam Whitty -- International struggles over "low literacy" versus the alternative "social practices" approach / Brian Street -- Multiliteracies reconsidered : a "pedagogy of multiliteracies" in the context of inquiry-based approaches / Margaret Early and Maureen Kendrick -- Examining the relational space of the self and other in the language-drama classroom : transcultural multiliteracies, situated practice and the cosmopolitan imagination / Burcu Yaman Ntelioglou -- Monster high : converging imaginaries of girlhood in tweens' digital doll play / Karen E. Wohlwend and Carmen L. Medina -- Investing in new literacies for a cosmopolitan future / Ron Darvin and Bonny Norton -- Public engagement and digital authoring : Korean adolescents write for/as action / Amy Stornaiuolo and Jin Kyeong Jung -- Artifacts as catalysts for reimagining transcultural literacy pedagogies / Michelle A. Honeyford with Judy Amy-Penner, Tim Beyak, David Beyer, Amanda Borton, Kelly Fewer, Chasity Findlay, and Damian Purdy -- Rescripting classed lives and imagining audiences as online cosmopolitan practice / Diane Collier -- Poststructural and posthuman theories as literacy research methodologies : tensions and possibilities / Candace R. Kuby -- Proper distance and the hope of cosmopolitanism in a classroom discussion about race / Anne Crampton, Cynthia Lewis, and Jessica Dockter Tierney -- Towards transculturalism in tackling diversity for literacy teacher education / Patriann Smith, S. Joel Warrican, and Gwendolyn William.

Urban Ills: Confronting Twenty First Century Dilemmas of Urban Living in Global Contexts brings together original research by a wide array of interdisciplinary scholars to examine contemporary dilemmas impacting urban life in global contexts, following the latest global economic downturn. Focusing extensively on vulnerable populations, economic, social, health and community dynamics are explored as they relate to human adaptation to complex environments

Introduction -- Precedent and Need for a Human Domain -- Current Status of Human-Focused Capabilities in the U.S. Air Force -- Frameworks for Integrating Human-Aspects Considerations from Other U.S. Military Services and Foreign Military Partners -- Deepening Understanding of Human Aspects in Military Operations Within the Air Force -- Conclusion and Recommendations -- Appendix A: Interview Methods and Participants -- Appendix B: Definition and Characteristics of a Warfighting Domain.

Quantum Jump was written for individuals trying to make sense of the rapid social and political changes overtaking their lives. Clement explains how our civilization is undergoing a translation similar to the European Renaissance, the development of managed agriculture or the invention of writing. Each of these eras brought about new world-views and broadened the intellectual scope through which we perceive our world. The Renaissance was triggered by the discovery of perspective - the means to manipulate three dimensions - and implemented by the bill of exchange and new mathematics. Our newest

L'article est une introduction à une lecture sociologique du social comme activité symbolique, cette expression devant s'entendre dans un sens très large. L'auteur propose ensuite, à titre d'indications, cinq façons d'opérer cette lecture. Le travail social peut alors s'analyser comme un travail sur le lien social à partir des dispositifs du langage. La fin de l'article propose une interprétation du travail social comme agir communicationnel, au delà des aspects techniques et instrumentaux de son activité et des aspects stratégiques liés à son organisation.

Social production of welfare provides a theoretical framework for the analysis of the consumption of social services and the impact of welfare policies. It represents the unit of consumption as a unit of production of commodities. With the advent of disability this unit extends to the informal care network. Social care agencies become involved when the production of basic commodities, such as nutrition and personal care, fall below threshold levels which threaten the survival of the informal care network. (Abstract amended)

An attempt to synthesize theoretical developments in industry of political communication is done in the article, the stages of research of this phenomenon are selected in political science and the features of political communication are determined in the conditions of modern society. Socio-cultural features of the population of different states, influence on politics, social development of society are analyzed.

How well does technology assessment (TA) relate to women's lives? If women are underrepresented in the long-term research and development process that leads to scientific advancements, how can TA understand technology aimed at women? It can't, claims the author of Technology Assessment: A Feminist Perspective. A relative new field, TA examines the social aspect of technology and provides information critical to decision making, policy development, safety standards, and avoiding litigation. Until gender analysis is introduced into all assessments of new technologies, Janine Marie Morgall argues, TA can't evaluate technology's impact upon women. Morgall investigates two areas of technology that affect women's lives: productive (clerical work) and reproductive (health care). Case studies of clerical workers and health care recipients illustrate gender-specify effects of technology ranging from word processors to treatments for infertility. These studies convincingly demonstrate that TA encourages innovations without questioning their effects on women. Issues of dominance, control, and conflicting values emerge from Morgall's feminist perspective and support her call for gender analysis of new technologies