Punk, Pot, and Promiscuity: Nostalgia and the Re-Creation of the 1970s

According to sociologist Fred Davis, Johannes Hover, a Swiss physician, first coined the term in a 1688 dissertation on homesickness among Swiss mercenaries (1). A feeling of being, or having been, integrated into a time imparts a sense of belonging and purpose. [...]more than arrested development k...

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Published in:Journal of American culture (Malden, Mass.) Mass.), 2002-04, Vol.25 (1/2), p.100
Main Authors: Breeden, David, Carroll, Jami
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Concept formation
Generations
Memory
Nostalgia
Physicians
Polyesters
War
World War II
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Summary:According to sociologist Fred Davis, Johannes Hover, a Swiss physician, first coined the term in a 1688 dissertation on homesickness among Swiss mercenaries (1). A feeling of being, or having been, integrated into a time imparts a sense of belonging and purpose. [...]more than arrested development keeps a person nostalgic for and identified with one's past. Remembering What We Never Saw Sociologists Howard Schuman and Jacqueline Scott claim that a memory of a decade or of a multifaceted long-term event, such as World War II, the Vietnam War, or the Women's Movement, remains an "act of conceptualization since historical reality is an undivided stream" (364).
ISSN:1542-7331
1542-734X