Generations and their toys

It was great meeting for the first time on Wednesday. We were discussing the toys we played with as kids, and how we remember them with nostalgia. The example I gave was a parody of the season one finale of “Gossip Girl” by Heather Fink. Take a look at this and see if you can see “generational identity” in the playing of Hungry Hungry Hippos.

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About jholley48

I am Associate Professor of Sociology at Suffolk University, Boston, Massachusetts. I am a theoretical sociologist conceptualizing how modern society creates generations using the successive phases of the life course. This means I look at youth, popular culture, romance, and parenting as these reshape our collective social life.

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