Professor S.N. Eisenstadt teaches at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem and is frequently a visiting professor at American universities. He is the author of The Political Systems of Empire, which won the 1964 McIver Award, and which has been published by Transaction in a new paperback edition.

• I: Age Groups and Social Structure: The Problem; II: Some Types of Age Groups; III: Age Groups in Nonkinship (Universalistic) Societies; IV: Specialization and the Structure of Age Groups; V: Age Groups in Familistic Societies; VI: The Functions of Age Groups in the Social System; VII: Archetypal Patterns of Youth; VIII: Contemporary Student Rebellions—Intellectual Rebellion and Generational Conflict; IX: Youth, Generational Consciousness, and Historical Change