Sobre estruturas etárias e ritos de passagem

Abstract

The subject of generations is one of the guidelines to understandthe structure of social movements. An accelerate rhythm of socialchange and somehow the control is lost over things, it producesvertigo. This paper points to the initiative characteristic of agestructures in social systems. The difference between age groupsworks as a constituting of the cultural standard for each society; thedifference between age groups as constitutive of the cultural patternof each society; the passage from a stage to another, granting acontinued movement to the society; the importance of the symboliccharacteristic of the rite of passage, the identity emptiness in themodern society with the emptying of the institutionalized rite