Douglas Coupland’s Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture: an alternative voice On production of his first novel, Coupland was labelled by critics spokesman for a new lost generation - “Generation X” - those individuals aged between mid-twenties and mid-thirties who have come of age in an increasingly technological and materialistic bureaucratic society. As a consequence, they are emotionally scarred and alienated, reject conformity and search for some kind of meaning to life. When asked
Baby Boomers are Jealous Generation X'ers have been described as "fanatically independent individuals pathologically ambivalent about the future, and brimming with unsatisfied longings for permanence, for love, and for material possessions." (Lauren, p.64) This less-than-flattering description of our generation has since been expanded by the media to the point that myself and my peers are described as a bunch of apathetic slackers unconcerned with family values, godless cynics resentful
A generation is a group of people born and living at about the same time, regarded collectively. Today we see that there exist four generations in the workplace namely the Baby Boomers, Generation X, Generation Y, and Generation Z. Baby Boomers The Baby Boomers are a generation of people born during the post WWII ‘Baby Boom’, roughly during the years 1946 to 1964. In the years following WWII many western nations experienced a spike in births as they slowly recovered from the economic hardships experienced
Opioid Epidemic The Grunge lifestyle from the 1990’s has accompanied Generation X throughout its cultural revolution; however, because of the drug culture within grunge, the United States is experiencing similar trends. Szatmary (2000) writes that Grunge speaks to the “middle-child” Generation X because Gen Xers feel as though their childhood has been robbed from them. Sarah Ferguson fully immersed herself within the culture of grunge by living homeless for a week joining her friend Bones. Bones
Generation X is a group of individuals that was born in the years of 1964-1980. This very interesting generation is a generation that is often forgotten. Reasoning being is because of how small this group is. During the time that this group of people was growing up their parents, the Baby Boomers were at large in the workplace. Layoffs were on the rise and the job market was very competitive. This led to one of the nicknames of this generation which is, “Latchkey Kids” (Zemke 2013). This term
The issue of the relationship between the mass media and the popular culture has always been a controversial issue in social sciences. The political economists insist on the role of the media industry in the creation of this phenomenon of the twentieth century. Though, advocates such as John Fiske, argue that popular culture is actually the creation of the populous itself, and is independent of the capitalist production process of the communication sector. Basing his argument on the immense interpretive