Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Sociological Association. The concept of generations can be employed quite effectively in immigrant acculturation research, especially when it incorporates key insights from life course theory. This is evidenced in theoretical and empirical studies of intergenerational and life course processes. In this paper, I consider linkages between theories of generations and of the life course, with the aim of developing a firm conceptualization and operationalization of generations for use in my dissertation research on mechanisms of intergenerational cultural and religious transmission in Palestinian Muslim American immigrant families. (Description from source)
