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Social Science Discrimination & Race Relations

The Myth of the Age of Entitlement

Millennials, Austerity, and Hope

by (author) James Cairns

Publisher
University of Toronto Press, Higher Education Division
Initial publish date
Jul 2017
Category
Discrimination & Race Relations, Social Classes, Popular Culture, Children's Studies
  • Hardback

    ISBN
    9781442636385
    Publish Date
    Jul 2017
    List Price
    $77.00
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9781442636378
    Publish Date
    Jul 2017
    List Price
    $37.95
  • eBook

    ISBN
    9781442636408
    Publish Date
    Jul 2017
    List Price
    $22.95

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Description

We are said to be living in the age of entitlement. Scholars and pundits declare that millennials expect special treatment, do whatever they feel like, and think they deserve to have things handed to them. 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. Providing insights from millennials rarely profiled in the mainstream media, Cairns redefines entitlement as a fundamental concept for realizing economic and environmental justice.

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).

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Editorial Reviews

"The Myth of the Age of Entitlement helps to puncture the invented entitled status that has been foisted onto millennials and provides an array of examples where millennials are bucking this myth, demanding their democratic entitlements, and telling the Margaret Wentes of the world to STFU (an acronym that Cairns also helpfully spells out on page 133)."

Nora Loreto, <em>Briarpatch Magazine</em>