Myth of the Age of Entitlement - Millennials, Austerity, and Hope

In The Myth of the Age of Entitlement, Cairns peels back the layers of the entitlement myth, exposing its faults and arguing that the majority of millennials are actually disentitled, facing bleak economic prospects and potential ecological disaster.

List of contents

Acknowledgements

1. The Age of Entitlement?
2. Democratic and Oppressive Entitlements
3. Zeroed Down: The Flexible Millennial Worker
4. Austerity U: Teaching and Resisting Disentitlement on Campus
5. Millennial Blowout: Eco-disentitlement versus Ecological Justice
6. Everything for Everybody
Appendix: A Note on Methodology
Glossary
References
Index

About the author

James Cairns is Associate Professor, Social and Environmental Justice, at Wilfrid Laurier University, Brantford. He is the author (with Alan Sears) of A Good Book, In Theory: Making Sense Through Inquiry (2015) and The Democratic Imagination: Envisioning Popular Power in the Twenty-First Century (2012).

Summary

The Myth of the Age of Entitlement peels back the layers of the entitlement myth, exposing its anti-democratic faults and offering a more nuanced understanding of the millennial generation.

Product details

• Authors: James Cairns
• Publisher: University of Toronto Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 28.07.2017
• EAN: 9781442636378
• ISBN: 978-1-4426-3637-8
• No. of pages: 208
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Society; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; Soziale Einstellungen, Soziale Mobilität, Volksglaube und umstrittenes Wissen, Altersgruppen: Kinder, Soziale Schichten