Yuppie
From The Art and Popular Culture Encyclopedia
"It is clear that many hippie leaders became in the 1980s perfect yuppies, including the great leader Jerry Rubin, turned Reagan activist and neo-liberal convinced Republican. In France, Michel Clouscard was the main thinker to have predicted this transformation, seeing in the hippie movement a simple internal crisis of American capitalism, which far from being threatened was to emerge only stronger from these events. He crystallized this idea in his concept of "liberal-libertarian"." --Sholem Stein |
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"Yuppie" (short for "young urban professional" or "young, upwardly-mobile professional") The term is first attested in 1980, when it was used as a fairly neutral demographic label; by the mid-to-late 1980s, when a "yuppie backlash" developed, due to concerns over issues such as gentrification, some writers used the term as a pejorative.
See also
- Bourgeoisie
- DINK (Dual Income No Kids)
- Gentrification
- Hipster
- Opportunities (Let's Make Lots of Money)
- Baby boomers