Generations Research Page

The idea that generations in history can be seen as cyclical comes from Neil Howe & William Strauss. You can explore their ideas here. Note that what I’ve labeled as X they call Thirteenth, and my Y is their Millennial (see Generations Chart).

Use the links below to help you with the following:

Select a “generation” (The “Greatest” Generation; The Silent Generation; The Baby Boomers; Generation X; Generation Y) and research the following:

--time period in which the generation was born
--current population of people in the generation
--icons of the generation
--different terms for the generation and how they were named
--positive and negative attitudes toward the group

Generation Y

gen·er·a·tion Y or Gen·er·a·tion Y noun
people born in or after 1980: the generation of people born approximately in or after 1980 in Western countries, especially the United States (informal)

http://www.businessweek.com/1999/99_07/b3616001.htm

Marketing Generation Y

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generation_Y

Wikipedia page

http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/featured_articles/010409monday.html

More marketing strategies to sell to Generation Y

http://www.usatoday.com/money/workplace/2005-11-06-gen-y_x.htm

Generation Y enters the workplace

http://www.washtimes.com/national/20050412-121457-4149r.htm

Generation Y & Religion

http://www.ypulse.com/

Geez!!! Yet ANOTHER page on how businesses are wooing today’s youth market

http://www.onpoint-marketing.com/generation-y.htm

Did I mention marketing?

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Generation X

gen·er·a·tion X or Gen·er·a·tion X noun
young adults at millennium: the generation of people born roughly during the years 1965 to 1980 in Western countries, especially the United States, often regarded as disillusioned, cynical, or apathetic

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generation_X

Wikipedia seems like a good place to start

http://www.jour.unr.edu/outpost/specials/genx.overvw1.html

Basic info plus a couple of links

http://dir.yahoo.com/Society_and_Culture/Cultures_and_Groups/Generation_X/

Yahoo’s Directory of links

http://www.80s.com/ChildrenOfTheEighties/

The name says it all

http://www.albany.net/~genxtv/

What’s on the telly for Xers?

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Baby Boomers

somebody born in baby boom: somebody born during a baby boom, especially the one following the end of World War II. Also called boomer

http://www.netwalk.com/~duchapl/

Argh!! A page by and for Boomers

http://www.bbhq.com/

They call this page Boomer Headquarters… check it out

http://boomersint.org/bindex.html

I could spend a lot of time with all these links!

http://moneycentral.msn.com/content/CNBCTV/Articles/TVReports/P149758.asp

Now that Boomers are aging….

http://www.lib.virginia.edu/exhibits/sixties/index.html

Psychedelic, Man!!!

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The Silent Generation

Nearly fifty million Americans were born to the Silent Generation in America between 1925 and 1942. Before them were the so-called G.I. Generation and after them the Boom Generation, then the X, and now the Millennial. No generation has so small a reputation as does the Silent. No generation since the American Civil War has been so misunderstood and underestimated.

http://www.fiftiesweb.com/

A tribute to the Happy Days years

Generation Gap - Silent Generation

Created as a “Thinkquest” page

Silent Generation

A “Fourth Turning” Account

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silent_Generation

Another Wiki entry

Suddenly Senior. LET’S HERE IT FOR THE SILENT GENERATION!

From their own mouths!

Both Generation X and the Silent Generation came of age after major changes in America

A comparison of two generations

http://www.ruthdoanmacdougall.com/Features/silent.html

Some useful links?

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The “Greatest” Generation (The GI Generation)

A generation of America's citizen heroes and heroines who came of age during the Great Depression and the Second World War and went on to build modern America

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G.I._Generation

The Wikipedia entry

http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/Zinn/Greatest_Generation.html

Howard Zinn’s take on his generation

http://www.washington.org/americacelebrates/

America celebrated this generation for 100 days in 2004

http://home.earthlink.net/~rdmadden/webdocs/Greatest_Generation.html

An unusual page trashing this generation. The author appears to be a libertarian.

http://www.bbhq.com/gr8gen.htm

This page gives you an idea of suburban life after WWII.

http://library.thinkquest.org/23440/gi.html

Thinkquest page with some basic trivia.