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Youth and Tradition (From Perspectives on Contemporary Youth, P 111-131, 1988, Janusz Kuczynski, S N Eisenstadt, et al, eds. -- See NCJ-124226)

NCJ Number
124231
Author(s)
E Shils
Date Published
1988
Length
21 pages
Annotation
The rationalistic inclination of the Enlightenment and the emotional sensitivity of romanticism contain the potentialities that have been realized in the outlook of the young generations of the past 25 years.
Abstract
The traditions of both the Enlightenment and romanticism were determined to obliterate tradition as a formative power in human development. This has led to the new a historical, anti-traditional outlook that views the individual's momentary experience and sensation as the only reality worthwhile. The conditions for the reassimilation of youth into the once dominant traditions of their respective societies in the near future is not favorable. Regular and continuous work, which is one of the conditions under which the traditions espoused by society's centers are accepted, is not available to many youth. The requirement for skilled manual workers is diminishing. The youth who will assimilate the traditions of economic and social institutions are those who succeed in obtaining an education that qualified them for highly-skilled, lucrative jobs. In their leisure lives, however, many will manifest anti-traditional, antinomian tendencies.

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