Generation Gap Essay

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A generation gap is a difference of opinions between one generation and another with respect to music, politics, and views. In nowadays, "generation gap" often refers to a recognized gap between younger people and their parents or grandparents. The idea of a generation gap first came to light in the 1960s, when the new generation (later known as Baby Boomers), and they were named boomers because their oppositional attitudes to their parents considered in terms of music, governmental and political views.” Sociologists have divided the lifetime into three different parts: childhood, middle age and retirement. Frequently, when any of these age groups is hooked in its primary activity, other members are physically isolated from people of other generations, such as fathers’ business and jobs take them for a long time from raising their children especially the ones who travels a lot, also children are taken away from all their family by different methods like friends, mobiles, home works. Moreover, differences in how a young man change to adult is a reason for a generation gap, as their believes may change by traveling to the future. Besides, there are several places affect the view of a childhood and separate these generations from each other in home and in social relations in places like (clubs, mosques, churches, centres). According to sociologists Gunhild O. Hagestad and Peter Uhlenberg,” this generational segregation is of great concern as it fosters ageism and