"generation Gap": A New Social Phenomenon And Its Interpretation

Generation gap is the distinct differences on thoughts and ideas, language and behavior, value orientation between two consecutive or disjunctive generations rising from dramatic changes of environment and confrontation among east-west thoughts and ideas of various sorts since the beginning the open-up and reform with the development of society. As the coming of a century, the development tendency of generation gap changed significantly upon the influences of multiple elements produced by social change. The most extinguished phenomena is the emergence of inner-generation gap, the differentiation among the same generation group roughly the same age. Inner-generation gap is objective revelation of social change acceleration on generation relation and the result of modernization.Base on investigation on the post-80 and post-90 juvenile group in city of Changsha, obvious inner-generation gap do exist actually among the same juvenile generation groups. It represents pluralism in sex conception, consumption code and life development orientation etc, Mars character and other novel languages difference in expression and punk code, self-atonement, aberrance and anomie and other special behavior difference. The reasons for these is all-around, mainly the wakening of body consciousness, culture and social experiences and difference of roles caused by social change, the catalyze by mass media, disjunction of three ages and influences of upper generation and so on. However, inner-generation gap represents new traits of symmetry of bodies, the shortness of formation, the volatility of exposure extent and multi-layered of body representation realm. Inner-generation gap as the result of social change would counteract on society too and entails objective perspective. The negative impact is harmful of the build-up of harmonious values and stable and solid groups to trigger social problems while positive to some extent improve social development and advancement, enhance culture creation and reform, increase individual adaptability and independence and so on. Extend its positive side while eliminate its negative sides by build-up of harmonious value, uphold of mainstream culture, mutual respect and understanding and other measures. Therefore, differentiate and wholesome basic principle should be adhered for objective judgment and survey.