By Mark Bahnisch on August 19, 2009
I’ve been running a bit of a crusade against lazy generationalist assumptions for a long time (ie ‘all Baby Boomers are x, Gen Y thinks z’.) These perennial sweeping stereotypes raised their head in Monday’s Woodstock culture wars. Recently, too, [...]
Posted in Media, Politics, Sociology | Tagged Baby Boomers, fallacies, Gen X, Gen Y, generationalism, generations, John Quiggin, logic, Mark Arbib, Media, Politics, Sociology, Woodstock |
By Mark Bahnisch on October 29, 2008
One of the longest bows I’ve seen drawn about the effects of the global financial crisis is this obituary (and not in elegiac style) for the 80s. And Gen X. Apparently because of Robert Zemeckis. And therefore Gordon Gekko. I [...]
Posted in Australiana, Culture, Economics, Film, TV, Video etc, History, Markets, Music, Sociology, USA | Tagged 80s, 90s, cultural sociology, cultural studies, David Mekelburg, Demi Moore, Gen X, Gen Y, generationalism, global financial crisis, Gordon Gekko, Greed is Good, Jules, labour market, pop culture, Robert Zemeckis, Sociology, St Elmo's Fire |
By Mark Bahnisch on September 1, 2008
mute a generation by ~funkadelic on deviantART Image courtesy of Funkadelic at deviantart. Click through and click on full view for a higher res version. Regular LP readers might recall that I’ve been emphasising for some time now research evidence [...]
Posted in Activism, Blogging, Media, Sociology, The Web | Tagged ABC tv, blogging and politics, blogosphere, citizenship, civic capacities, cultural sociology, cultural studies, democracy, electoral behaviour, Gen X, Gen Y, generationalism, new social movements, ngos, online activism, Phillipa Colvin, political analysis, political apathy, political commentary, political disengagement, political engagement, political parties, political sociology, protest movements, punditariat, Q&A, Qanda, Sociology, sociology of culture, sociology of generations, volunteering, Whitlam Institute, youth activism |
Muting a generation
By Mark Bahnisch on September 1, 2008
mute a generation by ~funkadelic on deviantART Image courtesy of Funkadelic at deviantart. Click through and click on full view for a higher res version. Regular LP readers might recall that I’ve been emphasising for some time now research evidence [...]
Posted in Activism, Blogging, Media, Sociology, The Web | Tagged ABC tv, blogging and politics, blogosphere, citizenship, civic capacities, cultural sociology, cultural studies, democracy, electoral behaviour, Gen X, Gen Y, generationalism, new social movements, ngos, online activism, Phillipa Colvin, political analysis, political apathy, political commentary, political disengagement, political engagement, political parties, political sociology, protest movements, punditariat, Q&A, Qanda, Sociology, sociology of culture, sociology of generations, volunteering, Whitlam Institute, youth activism | 18 Responses