ABSTRACT
Most children of the world are born into families and spend varying proportions and lengths of their daily lives within these generationally structured ‘units’ in which some of the members are positioned as ‘parents’ while others are positioned as ‘children’. This is the normal assumption of most (Western) sociology, long ago crystallized in their concepts such as the family and socialization. Mostly sociologists just assume the generational structuredness of children’s lives and relationships as a (social) fact and as the basis for formulating their research questions and interpreting their results.
