Resumen

CANALES CERON, Manuel  y  GHIARDO SOTO, Felipe. Time periods, cohort and generations of chileans: exploring around the different groups of social time periods. Ultima décad. [online]. 2012, vol.20, n.36, pp. 11-41. ISSN 0718-2236.  doi: 10.4067/S0718-22362012000100002.

The article analyzes the relationship between different age cohorts and a set of signals characterizing the decades that covers the process of modernization in Chile. By analyzing the extent to which the different cohorts are recognized in a number of areas in each of the decades and their correspondence with ideological elements raises the possibility of taking over as generations cohort participating in the study and then discusses the possibilities and limits encountered by the generational component as social analyzer.

Palabras clave : cohort; time periods; generations.