- Title
- The making of a generation: the children of the 1970s in adulthood
- Creator
- Threadgold, Steven
- Relation
- Youth Studies Australia Vol. 32, Issue 2, p. 69-70
- Relation
- http://0-journals.sfu.ca.library.newcastle.edu.au/ysa/index.php/YSA/issue/view/1
- Publisher
- Australian Clearinghouse for Youth Studies
- Resource Type
- journal article
- Date
- 2013
- Description
- 'Generation' is a term usually deployed in two problematic ways. It is a key trope for use in marketing. In connection, but more troubling, it is a form of symbolic violence in mainstream media and political discourses where an array of generalisations, stereotypes and labels are mobilised to pathologise structural problems as individual deficiencies - lazy students bludging off their parents; disloyal careerists; technologically dependent, mindless consumers; socially irresponsible, politically apathetic individuals - and so on. By using socio-histoirical definition of generation, where it denotes how people born at a similar time face similar economic, social and cultural norms that do not necessarily parlay into common values and experiences, Andres and Wyn skilfully show how two traditional contours of inequality - class and gender - still play key roles in shaping the very different transitions of young people and do much to destroy these governmentalised caricatures.
- Subject
- book review
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1055408
- Identifier
- uon:15880
- Identifier
- ISSN:1038-2569
- Rights
- Copyright to this version is retained by ACYS and this version is archived with the permission of ACYS.
- Language
- eng
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