CC200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Industrial Revolution, Juvenile Delinquency, Defense Of Infancy
Document Summary
The reality of youth: developmental differences and different prospects, social environments, status from adults. Laundry list of issues facing youth born after 1964 (post-boomer): Outnumbered demographically by the baby boomers, therefore little financial or political power. Wages relative to cost of living has decreased consistently since the 1970s (when the boomers entered the workforce) Poor economic prospects: 1/7 canadians and 1/5 canadian children live in poverty. Job market: employment below qualifications, more education expected for jobs, temporary work/ gig economy. Lifestyle expectations are much lower than parent generation. Negation of the social contract: decrease in teaching youth to be competent and independent, helicopter parenting, collapse of adult authority structure, over-policing, over-criminalizing of youth. Misrepresentation in the media, over-sensationalization, emphasis on violence. Almost every generation views their successors more negatively than they view their own generation. In other words, everyone remembers the good old days.
