Public Places and Generational Objects (Case Study of the South Terminal by the Generational Relationship Approach)

Social relationships have always been in the spot of scholars, particularly, inter-generational relationships and objects create a new subject matter. The present article has adopted a generational approach and qualitative methods in examining inter-generational relationships and objects throughout everyday life and within public places. This article illustrates that inter-generational relationships and objects reveal plainly in public places due to the absence of local bonds, concepts of estrangement, instability, degeneration of primary bonds (ethnic or family relationships) and the impact of cultural and social bonds deriving from the family, religion and political systems and the empowerment of secondary bonds e.g. lifestyle, consumption patterns. Results have reflected that the three generations behave variably in South Terminal despite of some similarities in purchase patterns, application of objects and interaction in elsewhere.