Research Catalog

Title

The decade matrix / James O. Gollub.

Author

Gollub, James O.

Publication

Reading, Mass. : Addison-Wesley, c1991.

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Description

xxiii, 341 p.; 25 cm.

Summary

An examination of the connection between social forces and the stages of human development; how the impact of a person's birth decade affects his or her values, beliefs, life style, spending habits, and politics. Gives new insight into who we are, why our parents are the way they are, and who our children are likely to become.

Subject

• 1900-1999
• Geschichte 1900-1990
• Life cycle, Human
• Social values
• National characteristics, American
• Ethnopsychology > United States
• United States > Social conditions > 20th century

Note

• Includes index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Introduction : the Rashomon quandary -- The life span framework -- Children of the century : 1900-1909 -- The dream-deferred generation : 1910-1919 -- Children of the American dream : 1920-1929 -- The bridge generation : 1930-1939 -- The gap generation : 1940-1949 -- The baby boomers : 1950-1959 -- Techno-kids : 1960-1969 -- A reflection on the future : today's time signatures tomorrow -- Epilogue : we have met the decades and they are us.

ISBN

0201157888 :

LCCN

^^^90022180^

OCLC

• 22734964
• SCSB-10745209

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library