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Generation

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Generation is the act o producin affspring. In kinship terminology, it is a structural term designatin the parent-child relationship. It is forby kent as biogenesis, reproduction, or procreation in the biological sciences. The term is eften uised synonymously wi cohort in social science an aa; unner this formulation the term means "fowk within a delineatit population who experience the same signeeficant events within a gien period o time".[1]

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  1. Pilcher, Jane (September 1994). "Mannheim's Sociology of Generations: An undervalued legacy" (PDF). British Journal of Sociology. 45 (3): 481–495. doi:10.2307/591659. Retrieved 10 October 2012.