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Tag: Neil Howe

  • 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.…

  • Introduction to Strauss and Howe

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    More than twenty years, I was in graduate school at Kansas State University, studying sociology and demography. There was considerable interest at the time in the Baby Boom generation. Landon Jones published his book Great Expectations: America and the Baby Boom Generation in the fall of 1980. The Baby Boom generation was named as such…

  • History Doesn’t Repeat Itself, but it Rhymes

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    What time is it? Ask that question; usually, someone will look at a watch and tell you what it reads. Actually, there are several valid answers to the question. How about daytime? Wintertime? Christmastime? Wartime? Downtime? Dinnertime? Tool-Time? (Okay. Maybe not the last one.) All these have in common that they mark some point in…