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Category: Series: Generations

  • Generations Posts: Index

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    Here is an index to my series on generations:   Introduction to Generational Thinking   History Doesn't Repeat Itself, but it Rhymes Introduction to Strauss and Howe The Turnings Generation Archetypes   The Living Generations   G.I. Generation (1901-1924) Silent Generation (1925-1942) Baby Boom Generation (1943-1960) Generation X (1961-1981) Millennial Generation (1982-200?)   Closing Observations…

  • Generations: Concluding Observations

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    Understanding trends in human behavior has been one of my lifelong interests. As I have studied sociology and history, too many models I see are deterministic systems. I firmly believe in human free will (even though I am Presbyterian **grin**), and many of these "systems" are just a little too neat. In popular culture, I…

  • The Fourth Turning is Here

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    “Sometime around the year 2005, perhaps a few years before or after, America will enter the Four Turning.” This is the opening sentence to Chapter 10 of Strauss and Howe’s book The Fourth Turning: An American Prophecy, as they begin discussing their future expectations. The book was written in the mid-1990s. The authors go on…

  • Millennial Generation (1982-200?)

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    Name: Millennial GenerationBirth years: 1982-200?Archetype: Hero Like the previous generation, there is no readily accepted name for this generation. Some call them “Generation Y” (after Generation X) some call them the “Mosaic Generation,” emphasizing their greater degree of diversity. Strauss and Howe call them the “Millennial Generation” as they were the generation coming of age…

  • Generation X (1961-1981)

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    Name: Generation XBirth Years: 1961-1981Archetype: Nomad The generation born from 1961-1981 has been called “The Baby Bust,” “Survivor Generation,” and “Generation X.” William Strauss and Neil Howe called them the “13th Generation” because they have been the 13th generation since the 1620s. Generation X is the term most frequently used in the media, and for…

  • Baby Boom Generation (1943-1960)

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    Name: Baby Boom GenerationBirth Years: 1943-1960Archetype: Prophet Childhood The Baby Boom Generation is named after the explosion in fertility rates from the 1940s up to the early 1960s. There were two important contributors to the boom. First was the return home of World War II soldiers. Family formation had been slowed because of the war…

  • Silent Generation (1925-1942)

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    Name: Silent GenerationBirth Years: 1925-1942Archetype: Artist Childhood Silent Generation children were born just as the nation entered a fourth turning. The culture had been unraveling for the previous twenty years, and a crisis was at hand. Silent children watched their elders struggle against the most difficult economic times of the century. As war clouds gathered…

  • G.I. Generation (1901-1924)

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    Name: G.I. GenerationBirth years: 1901-1924Archetype: Hero Childhood Just prior to the birth of the G.I. Generation, muckraking reporters exposed the neglect of children in big city tenements and the exploitation of child labor. The legislation was passed to protect children. A trend toward developing city parks and playgrounds emerged in cities across the nation to…

  • Generation Archetypes

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    In my last post, I wrote about the saeculum and its four turnings (or seasons). Each turning has a collective "mood." What drives these moods is the configuration of generations alive during each turning. Drawing on the work of political theorists and historians dating as far back as the Greeks and the Old Testament, William…

  • The Turnings

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    William Strauss and Neil Howe claim America has just entered the “Fourth Turning” of the fifth saeculum since the arrival of the Pilgrims at Plymouth. Below is a chart showing the timeframes of each saeculum and the turnings within that saeculum.   A key dynamic in Strauss and Howe’s theory is the oscillation of crises.…