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Thesis List and Presentation
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Julie Kim
The imperfect comquest of Generation gap and the best plan
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Introduction
A. Problem
Prior to the main subject, let us find a part that is related with old people. Also let us look back our attitudes to old people. How do you feel? What can you find? If we cast behind, we can discover a bit of a sense of distance with old people although they belong to the same community, such as in family, company, or social gathering. But uncomfortable and awkward mind is somehow natural result between old and new generations.
To compare with about 20 years ago, today's period has changed and developed in many ways. Appearances of new electronic machines, new discoveries, ideas, cultures and words, are numerous evidences of the developments. Especially the development of information and communication technology is making a huge changes geometrically, and also can make old people to be tired of them easily. For quickness and convenience, people are forced to adapt all technologies that are now developed. But unlike the young generation who are good at absorbing new things, old people are experiencing difficulties with rapid changes in the world. Old people lived with traditional ideology, and unavoidable to face the loss of their role, isolation from social activities, a close of economical activities or abundant income, and psychological solitude. From this we can see that the old people and young generation are fundamentally different in many ways according to periods of age. Naturally, because of that differences, young generations feel heavy around, or misunderstand old people. As the speed of changing of society becomes faster, uncomfortable and awkward mind that previously stated grow up that we now call generation gap.
B. Question
If we go into more fundamental part, some questions occur. Such as 'old people and young generation are living same period, but why are they different and generation gap occurs?' While investigating reasons of generation gap to solve those questions, another question arises; "why can't we perfectly conquest generation gap?" Generally, people think that old people can overcome the generation gap through efforts. But there will are some to overcome the generation gap: geological factor, unavoidable, and pertinent to every old people. Therefore, I viewed psychological characteristics at an old age as a main reason of generation gap, and going to study them. For this study, books which treated adult·senile psychology were used.
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