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This template is not meant to be a comprehensive list, but just a list of the non-controversial generation types, from Western Society, which is a narrow categorization. If you really want to add an item on the list, please gain consensus on the talk page first -- any adds will just be reverted otherwise.
English: Timeline of generations in the Western world as in its Wikipedia article with notable events by CMG Lee. The retirement and life expectancy ages are approximate due to variations in place and time. In the SVG file, click or hover over a generation to highlight it. See references on Generation#Western_world for sources.
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While writing Generations, Strauss and Howe described a theorized pattern in the historical generations they examined, which they say revolved around generational events which they call turnings. In Generations, and in greater detail in The Fourth Turning, they describe a four-stage cycle of social or mood eras which they call "turnings". The ...
Baby boomers didn't all benefit from free education, and not all millennials are struggling to buy a home. Millennials, Gen X, Gen Z, baby boomers: how generation labels cloud issues of inequality ...
A genogram, also known as a family diagram, [1] [2] is a pictorial display of a person's position and ongoing relationships in their family's hereditary hierarchy. It goes beyond a traditional family tree by allowing the user to visualize social patterns and psychological factors that punctuate relationships, especially patterns that repeat over the generations.
Mannheim defined a generation (note that some have suggested that the term cohort is more correct) to distinguish social generations from the kinship (family, blood-related generations) [2] as a group of individuals of similar ages whose members have experienced a noteworthy historical event within a set period of time. [2]