(02-03-2017, 04:15 PM)SomeGuy Wrote: What purpose do you think this serves?
The purpose is we talk about the theory, but I don't think most folks, including you, have a grasp on it. The S&H theory is endogenous, not exogenous. That is the generations create themselves, they do not rely on some other external phenomenon creating the conditions under which generations then operate.
Your assertion that social moments are evenly spaced is an example of invoking an outside force: given the existence of social moments we can define those generations who take part in then in youth or in leadership as dominant.
But if you do that, you are simply moving the goalposts. What causes the evenly-spaced social moments in the first place?