Baby Boomers and Generational Conflict
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Word Count
52,750 words, Guess
Page Count
211 pages
Physical Format
Hardcover
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL27953517M
- ISBN-139781137454720
- ISBN-101137454725
- OCLC Control Number902659540
- Library of Congress Control Number2015002347
Classifications
- LCCHM726 .B75 2015
- LCCHM721-726JC479HM401-
Description
"The dominant cultural script for Baby Boomers is that they have 'had it all' - the benefits of a booming economy, the welfare state, and personal freedoms - thereby depriving younger generations of the opportunity to create a life for themselves. Bristow provides a critical account of this discourse by locating the problematisation of the Baby Boomers within a wider ambivalence about the legacy of the Sixties. At the heart of generational conflict is the mediation between past, present and future: where society is preserved and made anew by the interaction between emerging adults and the existing cultural heritage. However, this process of cultural renewal is situated within people who also exist within intimate relationships. This book critiques 'Boomer Blaming', which has some troubling consequences for the construction of knowledge, the focus of social policy, and the experience of generational contact"--
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