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Generation Me - Revised and Updated: Why Today's Young Americans Are More Confident, Assertive, Entitled--and More Miserable Than Ever Before Paperback – September 30, 2014
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Born in the ’80s, and ’90s and called “The Entitlement Generation” or Millennials, they are reshaping schools, colleges, and businesses all over the country. The children of the Baby Boomers are not only feeling the effects of the recession and the changing job market—they are affecting change the world over. Now, in this new edition of Generation Me, Dr. Twenge incorporates the latest research, data, and statistics, as well as new stories and cultural references, to show how “Gen Me-ers” have shifted the American character, redefining what it means to be an individual in today’s society.
Dr. Twenge uses data from 11 million respondents to reveal shocking truths about this generation, including dramatic differences in sexual behavior and religious practice, and controversial predictions about what the future holds for them and society as a whole. Her often humorous, eyebrow-raising stories about real people vividly bring to life the hopes, disappointments, and challenges of Generation Me. Engaging, controversial, prescriptive, and funny, Generation Me gives Boomers and GenX’ers new and fascinating insights into their offspring, and helps those in their teens, twenties, and thirties find their road to happiness.
- Print length400 pages
- LanguageEnglish
- Publication dateSeptember 30, 2014
- Dimensions5.5 x 1 x 8.38 inches
- ISBN-101476755566
- ISBN-13978-1476755564
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-- Paula Kamen, author of Feminist Fatale and Her Way: Young Women Remake the Sexual Revolution
"In this startling, witty, and refreshing book, a pioneering researcher explains how the very personality of the average American is different....Based on careful, groundbreaking research, but filled with touching and amusing stories, this book explains exactly how the American character is changing and evolving, sometimes for the better, sometimes not."
-- Roy F. Baumeister, author of The Cultural Animal: Human Nature, Meaning, and Social Life and Eppes Eminent Professor of Psychology, Florida State University
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Jean M. Twenge, Ph.D., is a widely published professor of psychology at San Diego State University. Her research has appeared in Time, USA Today, The New York Times, and The Washington Post, and she has been featured on Today, Good Morning America, and CBS This Morning. She holds degrees from the University of Chicago and the University of Michigan. Dr. Twenge lives with her husband and three daughters in San Diego, California.
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And then we adults wonder why these kids won't lift a finger and worse, they have come to believe that we parents live to fulfill our little precious angel's every want. We adults are just an extension of the kids.
These kids today cannot define the difference between 'want' and 'need' but they get societal messages that we are here to make sure it is all given to them on a silver platter.
Furthermore the numbers of children and young adults that are refusing to do schoolwork with any decent level of competency .. is stunning. They are taught to work hard in school, at least the teachers say that, and then the school passes them for their lowered, abysmal almost non-efforts at what we parents in our generation worked hard at, when we went to school.
Twenge tries to end the book with a positive chapter, how to change all this nonsense, but I have come to the conclusion that until each & every adult in this country puts a stop to this nonsense, until each & every one of us supports the other in turning this cultural nonsense around, I'm not sure what is going to change.
We used to live in a rewards-based culture. You got in life in some proportion to your efforts that you expended to get there. Not these kids today. They just assume it will all be handed to them. I shudder to think of the millions of kids as they cannot make it through college or the work force. They can't even spell. Why should they. In fact, they cannot even write. Good-bye cursive and soon it will be good-bye printing. Every kid will have a hand held device and their fingers will do the talking for them and if you can get them to make eye contact with you while talking .. good luck. Parents of school aged kids today, you know what I am talking about. No wonder these kids are lonely and lost. They are clueless what the 'human' touch is about.
Oh and if your Precious wants a new cell phone, you'd better get it for your kid because after all, they are Entitled to them and there are stories in the media that kids will assault the parents if you don't buy them what they want (which in their minds is a necessity and they can't stand out or be different so you will get beat up if you don't get them a cell phone.) Don't ever forget that. I am on my 3rd cell phone in the last 11 years or so .. and one of my kids, not even 16 yet, has a box in the bedroom with 19 of them not used or broken. (Entitled kids do not take care of their stuff .. have you noticed?)
Kinda strange to write for a 5-star review but .. I highly recommend the book.
First, let me confess that I was skeptical of Dr. Twenge's research before reading it. The idea of cultural and psychological decline seemed SO hackneyed and trite. I remembered reading it in Livy and other classical writers as well as seeing pundits all over the media fatuously bloviate about the decadence of our generation.
Well, let it be known that Twenge is not rehashing old chestnuts and decrying Generation Me. Instead she has done what everybody else has failed to do: Rigorously and painstakingly documented these changes scientifically. After reading her research articles there can be no doubt that generational trends are real. Besides, Twenge sees both the good and the bad in these changes and doesn't pass blame without first giving sociologically astute structural explanations.
So, what does this book add to the academically oriented reader who can simply do a google scholar search of Jean's articles? Context. She uses her deft knowledge of pop-culture, technological trends, and economics to give a very convincing, light-hearted, humorous, but measured explanation for the trends seen in Generation Me. Jumping from quotes in US Weekly to movies to case studies, Twenge provides a convincing narrative to support the abstract statistics. It's the difference between reading a dense tome on Julius Caesar and then watching that tome fleshed out in a great biography. Both are necessary but usually require separate authors. In this case, Jean Twenge does both--an accomplishment not to be underrated.
The book reads so well that I thought Jean should become a fiction writer. I envy her chatty, witty writing style and her ability to craft a sentence. Don't be fooled, however, by the ease of reading: Many of the chapters should be reread and contemplated. As is the case with any book that covers so much ground, there are ideas that I am not sold on and things to quibble with here and there. But that is the point! Read, think, and debate.
We are certainly a narcissistic, anxious, depressed, high self-esteemed, cynical, and ironic generation. It is about time that a true scientist did the research and provided a plausible explanation as to why this is the case.
One of the better books I have read in my short, anxious, selfish life.
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Dieses in plain amerikanisch verfaßte Buch habe ich tatsächlich mehrmals lesen müssen, um meine eigenen Vorurteile wenigstens einigermaßen in den Griff zu bekommen. Denn weder die "Boomers" noch die "GenMe's" noch andere Generationen werden mit Samthandschuhen angefaßt. Statt dessen jongliert diese bemerkenswerte Autorin Jean M. Twenge damit, jedermann "seinen" Spiegel vorzuhalten, in dem man sich wiederfinden kann, wenn man sich traut -- hineinzublicken …
Noch wesentlich schwieriger erscheint mir jedoch, sich von der Vorstellung zu lösen, die "man" sich möglicherweise von der "heutigen Jugend" zurechtgefrickelt haben mag -- und DAS gilt sowohl für die positiven als auch für die negativen Aspekte.
"The idea for this book began when I was a 21-year-old college student at the University of Chicago in 1992, working on my B.A. thesis.", beginnt die Autorin auf S. 11, Motivation und Entstehungsgeschichte aufzufieseln in einer Art, die ihresgleichen sucht. Und dann zwingt sie bis zum Ende des Buches ihren Lesern Statistiken auf, die zumindest mich anfangs eher genervt haben. Diese "Langeweile" änderte sich jedoch sehr bald, als ich nämlich herausfand, wie überaus erhellend diese Gegenüberstellung statistischer Daten versus sehr klug mitgelieferter Ereignisse dieser Zeiten ist. Denn mit diesen Bezugnahmen auf aktuelle Begebenheiten läßt sich überhaupt erst nachvollziehen, warum wir heute junge Menschen erleben, die zuweilen zynischer als ihre Weltkrieg-lebenserfahrenen Urgroßväter daherkommen … "I have been lied to all my life", says Ana, 17. "My government is corrupt and evil" […, S. 145].
Aber lesen Sie selbst dieses Buch. Nehmen Sie dabei Ihr eigenes Selbstwertgefühl fest in den Fokus, falls Sie ein kritisch mitdenkender Mensch sein sollten. Denn Sie werden lernen und einsehen, wie schleichend ein solcher Prozeß ist, der aus menschenfreundlichen Menschen geradezu ... Kannibalen macht, was allerdings meine höchstpersönliche Interpretation ist. Jean Twenge hingegen prognostiziert auf S. 215: Zitat Anfang: "If the United States does not develop a better system of child care […], more women will chose not to have children. If that is the case, the United States will experience the under-pupulation problems already prevalent in Europe and Japan. The Social Security systems will fall apart, and the economy will falter. The ideology of the population may also change, perhaps negating some of the equalizing trends I just predicted. […]" Zitat Ende.
Diese Publikation erschien anno 2006, und ich las sie erstmals 2008, und erneut 2019. Ich muß zugeben, daß meine große Sorge zugenommen hat, daß die Autorin Recht behalten wird mit ihrer Prognose, die sich bei allem Verständnis nur noch zusammenfassen läßt in den Begriff "zunehmendes Interesse an sich selbst", und daas ist der befürchtete weltweite Narzißmus, der inzwischen längst snunamiartig über den großen Teich geschwappt ist und alles unter sich zu begraben droht ...
Wir mögen uns irren, die Autorin und ich, aber wir haben so unsere Befürchtungen. Jean Twenge sagt es am Ende dieses Buches überdeutlich, und dieser Aussage schließe ich mich vollinhaltlich an: Zitat Anfang Jean Twenge, S.241ff:
"We are raised to believe in ourselves, and to have a wildly optimistic outlook. Yet we are entering adulthood at a time when just getting by is increasingly difficult. Many of us will weather this collision of youthful expectation and harsh adult reality by becoming anxious or depressed. If you are a young person, I hope you have come to realize that you are not alone. If you are older, I hope you have gained the understanding that young people today were raised differently than you were, and that growing up today is not easy. In the coming years, I hope we will all realize that we can't make it solely on our own. Generation Me needs realistic expectations, careful career guidance, and assistance when we become parents. In return, we will gladly lend our energy and ambition toward our work and toward helping others." Zitat Ende Jean Twenge, S.241ff.
Ich möchte es mal so sagen: Greta aka Jean Twenge aka Greta was there, ever and always, aber niemand hat ihr richtig zugehört. Warum nicht? Vielleicht hat es sich inzwischen Gottlob doch schon ein wenig mehr herumgesprochen, daß Menschen doch nicht wirklich NUR Einzelwesen sind, sondern in einer Symbiose leben, die das Zusammenleben ALLER Völker ermöglicht, irgendwie?
Diese Publikation gehört zu den Schätzen meiner Büchersammlung, und ich bin sehr froh, es verinnerlicht zu haben, OBWOHL es mir noch immer Angst macht, wie visionär zutreffend die Autorin unsere Welt beschreibt ... seit 2006 bis heute, 2019!








