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Authors William Strauss and Neil Howe, who created the Strauss–Howe generational theory, coined the term 'millennial' in 1987. [15] [16] because the oldest members of this demographic cohort came of age at around the turn of the third millennium A.D. [17] They wrote about the cohort in their books Generations: The History of America's Future, 1584 to 2069 (1991) [18] and Millennials Rising ...
Strauss and Howe ascribe seven basic traits to the millennial cohort: special, sheltered, confident, team-oriented, conventional, pressured, and achieving. However, Arthur E. Levine, author of When Hope and Fear Collide: A Portrait of Today's College Student, dismissed these generational images as "stereotypes". [96]
Strauss and Howe have discussed 26 theorized turnings over 7 saecula in Anglo-American history, from the year 1433 through today. At the heart of Strauss and Howe's ideas is a basic alternation between two different types of eras, Crises and Awakenings.
These happen to be the millennials born in 1990 and 1991, which the New York Times’ Jenna Smialek deems “peak millennials” (for the purpose of this article, we’re expanding the name of ...
Millennials have had a number of economic factors working against them over the years. During the Great Recession (2007-2009), many millennials were in their 20s, facing high unemployment, stalled ...
Read moreThese are the actual age ranges for Millennials, Gen Z, Gen Alpha and more ... Gen X, Boomers, and Silentsâ and What They Mean for America’s Future.” Polars is a reference to the two ...
This category is for generations such as the Lost Generation, Baby Boomers, Generation X, Millennials, Generation Z, and immigrant generations. Subcategories This category has the following 7 subcategories, out of 7 total.
Previously, Bank of America strategists wrote that baby boomers won the housing market and millennials got screwed: Boomers benefited from a massive wealth transfer from the public to private ...