Generation Me: Why Today's Young Americans Are More Confident, Assertive, Entitled--and More Miserable Than Ever Before
 

Generation Me: Why Today's Young Americans Are More Confident, Assertive, Entitled--and More Miserable Than Ever Before

by Jean M., Ph.D. Twenge

Called "The Entitlement Generation" or Gen Y, they are storming into schools, colleges, and businesses all over the country. In this provocative new book, headline-making psychologist and social commentator Dr. Jean Twenge explores why the young people she calls "Generation Me" -- those born in the 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s -- are tolerant, confident, open-minded, and ambitious but also cynical,... (read more)

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Eddie Baumann
  • Rated 4 stars

In Generation Me Jean Twenge manages to do what is often difficult to accomplish in the literature, namely to describe the current generation in manner less based on ideology and more based in research. She also is able, through cross generational studies to document difference between the current generation and their Boomer parents in ways that are both enlightening, frightening, and entertaining.

As a Boomer, and having read too many descriptions of Gen Xers, Gen Yers, Millenials...

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rebecca m
  • Rated 1 stars

poorly researched (yes, I realize that the author did a lot of research; she did too much unethical research and not enough thoughtful research) and it's poorly argued.

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    rebecca m said:

    Very poorly researched--though the author has done a large quantity of research, her research methods are highly questionable. She took quotes out of context, quoted individuals without their consent, and she padded her bibliography. It seems as though she badly wanted to publish the book and that she had drawn her conclusions before she had all of the data. Also it seems as though she (and maybe the publisher) aimed to make the bibliography extra lengthy and complicated so that readers would just assume she's credible. SDSU should be ashamed.

    posted Wednesday, November 28 2007
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