Sociologists study many intergenerational issues , including equity , conflict , and mobility : An intergenerational conflict is either a conflict situation between teenagers and adults or a more abstract conflict between two generations , which often involves all inclusive prejudices against another generation .
An intergenerational conflict is either a conflict situation between teenagers and adults or a more abstract conflict between two generations , which often involves prejudices against another generation .
Linguistics in its broader context includes evolutionary linguistics , which considers the origins of language ; historical linguistics , which explores language change ; sociolinguistics , which looks at the relation between linguistic variation and social structures ; psycholinguistics , which explores the representation and function of language in the mind ; neurolinguistics , which looks at language processing in the brain ; language acquisition , how children or adults acquire language ; and discourse analysis , which involves the structure of texts and conversations .