Searches for connections between socialization and change. Suggests that the views of Marx and Weber are more helpful to understanding the origins of political socialization and change than the three explanations currently in the literature, that is, explanations based on uncommon people, dissident subcultures, or changing generations. (Author/JM)

Political attitudes, as measured in a large, national representative sample survey in five areas central to the "great gap" hypothesis (i.e. huge differences in attitudes between the young and the old) are examined in light of three models of the politics of youth. The data casts doubt on theories of the "youth revolt". While the non-college young…

Evaluates two models of generational political research: the lineage model in which generations are defined in terms of biological succession within family units, and the cohort model, in which generations are defined in terms of the common and unique life experiences (and socialization) of individuals born and raised in a particular time period.…