ABSTRACT
This chapter places misrecognition of young people within the wider context of institutionalised misrecognition of those young people. Generational misrecognition identifies the entirety of a generation as deserving of misrecognition. Millennial ‘deviance’ puts at risk the future. The misrecognising of Millennials centres on their seeming obsession with mobile phones and technology. Millennials’ ‘difference’ must be explained and ‘managed’ and a group of moral entrepreneurs have emerged to ‘explain’ Millennials to older adults – the ‘futurists’. Only when adults ‘understand’ Millennials can the social structure regain its equilibrium.
