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Indlæser... Great Expectations, America and the Baby Boom Generationaf Landon Y. Jones
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Bliv medlem af LibraryThing for at finde ud af, om du vil kunne lide denne bog. Der er ingen diskussionstråde på Snak om denne bog. Pop culture-in-the-making for its target audience. Not very deep or enduring; a snapshot of an evanescent sociological cohort. ( ) It's always interesting to read a popular history/sociological assessment of a subject thirty years after it's been written. This book on the Baby Boom generation published around 1980 is no exception. Written primarily from a demographer's perspective there is understandably a lot of pages devoted to fertility & population trends. Some of the social aspects of the book are amusing, especially the author's interpretation of the late 1960's and early 1970's, much of which is laughably incorrect. However, he does foresee the coming (now current) crisis in Social Security & Medicare. He does not, however, foresee that politicians would be calling for the end of the programs as we now know them. We must be a lot more cold-blooded today than even a statistician of a generation earlier could ever imagine. ingen anmeldelser | tilføj en anmeldelse
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From the Blurb: Great Expectations is the story of 75 million Americans born between 1946 and 1964, a baby boom so extraordinary that it has affected every aspect of our society, from fads, fashions and music, to education, crime rates and Social Security. From the first, the post-World War II baby boomers were endowed with great expectations: they would be the biggest, richest, best educated generation America has ever known. They made the '50s a child-oriented society, the '60s a period of stormy adolescence, and now their adult concerns have become national obsessions. Their shared experience has shaped them like no other generation. They have transformed the way America looks at work, women, divorce, and parenting (nearly one-half of their children are expected to grow up in single-parent households). But today they are a generation of uncertainty, unsure about their role in society and marriage, unsure even about reproducing themselves. Great Expectations is the story of a generation whose numbers are at once its greatest strength and its tragic limitation, and of a society unprepared to meet the demands of the explosion in its midst. No library descriptions found. |
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