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Next up is the baby boom generation, born from 1946 to 1964, whose name can be attributed to the spike in births — or “baby boom” — in the U.S. and Europe following World War II.
He argued that generational theories "seem to require" that people born at the tail end of one generation and people born at the beginning of another (e.g. a person born in 1965, the first year of Generation X, and a person born in 1964, the last of the Boomer era) "must have different values, tastes, and life experiences" or that people born ...
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]
Media coverage of Generation Jones typically has described it as a distinct generation, using Pontell's dates. [2] [3] Others see this as a subset of the Baby Boom Generation, primarily its second half. [4] [5] A third view is that Generation Jones is a cusp or micro-generation between the Boomers and Xers. [6]
Generation Alpha (often shortened to Gen Alpha) is the demographic cohort succeeding Generation Z.While researchers and popular media generally identify early 2010s as the starting birth year and the mid-2020s as the ending birth years, these ranges are not precisely defined and may vary depending on the source (see § Date and age range definitions).
There was a time when Juliana Olarte, a 26-year-old travel publicist living in New York City, couldn’t figure out where she fit in from a generational standpoint.
The generation already comprises the largest share of the “homebuying pie,” according to Redfin, purchasing around 60% of homes bought with mortgages over the last few years.
Timeline of generations in the Western world as in its Wikipedia article with notable events by CMG Lee. Life expectancy and retirement ages are approximate due to variations in place and time. In the SVG file, click or hover over a generation to highlight it.