In Germany, the nobility allied itself with bureaucracy. In France, it mobilized against Church and monarchy. US, lacking both Church and monarchy, conservatives united with bureaucracy and aristocracy. Problem of Generations Used Marx s concept of class, but saw it in terms of social categories he defined as generations. Classes are not concrete groups, but change over time or generations.
People born in the same year share a common temporal location in the social process.
Each generation views the world from its own time, not that of previous of succeeding generations. Mental climate changes. The Democrats of the South of previous generations are now Republicans. A Catholic cleric in the Middle ages is presented differently than a Catholic cleric today. New participants in culturally process 2.