DEPARTMENT OF SOCIOLOGY, FACULTY OF ARTS, CONSTANTINE THE PHILOSOPHER UNIVERSITY IN NITRA

Generation is a traditional category of sociology that helps in the reflection of society and its dynamics. Erosion, loss of shape, decomposition of structure, destruction of natural space-time is a common denominator of processes in which a new generation of youth arises. The characteristic of the emerging generation compared to the previous generations is that they do not develop as a generation. Specificity of this generation is the weakening or even the absence of specific generational features associated with the society they live in, and the increase of a transnational or extra-national characteristics. It is a movement in the direction of a global atomized crowd, formed virtually in a cyberspace for real-world negotiations. In the midst of the generation, at the borders of time, space, previous generations of the nation present generation is blurring. Generations smudge in all directions.generation, youth, generation typology, methodology of generation research, cyberspace, virtual reality

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