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In understanding how and why the generation known as the ‘Baby Boomers’ has been constructed as a social problem today, we need to begin at the beginning: that is, with the concept of ‘generation’. But the definition of a generation is itself contentious. As Kertzer (1983) notes, generation is a concept with a multitude of meanings, and has been of interest to human society for ‘many millennia’ (p. 125).
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Bristow, J. (2015). Understanding Generations Historically. In: Baby Boomers and Generational Conflict. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137454737_2
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