Generations are cohorts of people who were born in a certain date range and share a general cultural experience of the world.
This only lists generations that have a large number of living people; only a tiny number of people born prior to the year 1900 are still alive today.
1900 to present day
Note: The following generations are listed in chronological order, but without specific birth year ranges.
- Interbellum Generation - those born at the dawn of the 20th century and who grew up during the 1920s.
- The Greatest Generation, the generation of veterans that fought and won World War II. They were born between World War I and the mid-1920s. Journalist Tom Brokaw dubbed this the Greatest Generation in a 1998 book of the same name. [1]
- The Silent Generation was the generation who was too young to join the service when World War II started and prior to the end of the war. Many had fathers who served in World War I.
- The Baby Boom Generation was the generation born just after World War II, a time that included a 14-year increase in birthrate worldwide. Baby Boomers in their teenage and college years were characteristically part of the counterculture of the 1960s, but later became more ideologically divided, although the generation remained widely committed to keystone values such as gender equality, racial equality, and environmental stewardship.[2]
- Generation Jones is a term coined by Jonathan Pontell to describe the generation of people born between 1954 and 1965, the younger siblings of the Boomers. Barack Obama is the most well known member of this generation.
- Generation X is the generation connected to the pop culture of the late 1970s to early 1990s they grew up in.[3] Other names used interchangeably with Generation X are Reagan Generation, 13th Generation, and Baby Busters. Most of this generation are children of The Baby Boomers and The Silent Generation. Those born before 1973 spent most of their teen years in the 1980s.[2] The last of those in Generation X were born in 1981 and graduated high school in 1999. [4]
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- The MTV Generation are typically conceived as a "cusp" generation between Generation X and Generation Y that possess definable traits of both. While the music video and MTV rose to prominence during this generation's formative period, it is also notable for being the last generation able to compare hardwired and analog technologies to wireless and digital technologies based upon personal experiences. They are also the last generation with personal memories of the Cold War era.
- The Generation Y, or the "Millennials", are said to be dependent on digital technology. The start of this generation is marked by those born in 1982, or graduated high school in 2000.[5] The end is far less clear, from 1991 to 1993. It is in this generation that mobile phones, PCs and portable entertainment devices became affordable and readily available when the Gen Y-ers were in their teens or early 20s.
- Generation Z are modern children, born from somewhere in the mid of the 1990s to the present, but some are claimed to born as early as 1991.
See also
References
- ^ http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2004/jun/06/secondworldwar
- ^ a b Strauss, William & Howe, Neil. Generations: The History of America's Future, 1584 to 2069. Perennial, 1992 (Reprint). ISBN 0-688-11912-3 p. 324
- ^ Generation X and The Millennials: What You Need to Know About Mentoring the New Generations
- ^ http://www.uvm.edu/theview/article.php?id=1072
- ^ http://yawiki.org/proc/Generation+Y
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