The dominant cultural script is that the Baby Boomers have ‘had it all’, 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.
Table of Content
PART I: THE SOCIOLOGY OF GENERATIONS 1. Introduction 2. Understanding Generations Historically 3. Mannheim’s ‘Problem of Generations’ Revisited 4. The Birth of the Sixties – Generations after the Second World War PART II: THE CONSTRUCTION OF THE BABY BOOMERS AS A SOCIAL PROBLEM IN BRITAIN 5. The Cultural Script of the Baby Boomer Problem 6. The Boomers as an Economic Problem 7. The Boomers as a Cultural Problem 8. Conclusion – The Problem of Generations Today
About the author
Jennie Bristow is an associate of the Centre for Parenting Culture Studies at the University of Kent, UK, and a writer on intergenerational contact and conflict. She is co-author of
Parenting Culture Studies (Palgrave, 2014) and
Licensed to Hug (2010), and author of
Standing Up To Supernanny (2009).
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