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  title info:
    non sort: The
    title: generation myth
    sub title: why when you're born matters less than you think
  name:
    name part: Duffy, Bobby
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 2021
    copyright date: 2021
    edition: First US edition.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: vii, 273 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
  abstract: One of the simplest and most powerful ways we understand people is as members of a generation. Your uncle is a bit racist because he's a baby boomer, your gen x boss is not a good team player, your cousin is constantly trying to go viral because he's gen z and his generation is obsessed with fame. We also use generations as a tool for tracking how a society's values change over time (baby boomers liberated sex, millennials made it problematic) and how to appeal to the generations that hold them. What we assume when we talk about generations is that our values and habits are fixed by the time we turn 18, and that generational conflict is inevitable: a generation matures into adulthood and takes control of our artistic, commercial and political tastes, which then become obsolete and are replaced by succeeding generations. It's a compelling story. After all, it is natural to think you have more in common with your peers than with your parents. But it is also wrong. Bobby Duffy has spent decades studying how social values and beliefs change. In The Generation Myth, he argues that generations do not have fixed or monolithic identities, nor is one unavoidably distinct from all the rest. Rather, generational identities are fluid, forming and reforming throughout life. Gen xers aren't just a product of the Reagan years. Their values have been shaped equally by the Iraq War, two financial collapses and the simple fact that they have gotten older A generation isn't an identity as much as a process. Duffy shows that differences between generations aren't nearly as sharp as we think. Political engagement, for example, has not declined in younger generations. Younger people are always less politically active. Older generations have different expectations of their employers than younger generations simply because they entered different labor markets. Baby boomers had more sex in their youth than millennials, but millennials are actually happier with their sex lives. Young adults …
  table of contents: Introduction: The question of our generation -- Stagnation generation -- Home affront -- Reaching higher, falling flat -- Happy now -- A healthy future? -- The sex recession, baby bust, and death of marriage -- Manufacturing a generational culture war -- Constant crises -- Consuming the planet -- Us and them -- The end of the line?
  note: Bobby Duffy.
  note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 229-260) and index.
  subject:
    topic: Generations
  subject:
    topic: Knowledge, Sociology of
  subject:
    topic: Ignorance (Theory of knowledge)
  subject:
    topic: SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General
  classification: HM711 .D84 2021
  classification: 121
  identifier: 9781541620315
  identifier: 1541620313
  identifier: 9781541620308
  identifier: 2021015650
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 211103
    record change date: 20220210202411.2
    record identifier: in00004550944