Sunday, January 6, 2013

Youth are increasingly "entitled" study problematically (but not surprisingly) suggests

This Daily Mail article pronounces, once again, that today's kids are "entitled." But how is entitlement defined? And why don't the data assess "entitlement"?

How are our deepening understandings of US youth as "entitled" fueling the erosion of their social support? How is the belief that young people are entitled justifying their deprioritization and poor treatment in society?

I can't see the data speaking to "youth entitlement" at all from this article. Overall, reads like more of the same tired youth-blaming neoliberal crap we've been seeing for a few decades. But, then again, I hear alarm bells when I hear declarations of "youth entitlement" attempting to drown out the sound made by dismantling social structures and chipping away at erroneously termed "entitlements." Prolly just me tho.

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