252. The Theory of Generations

2024-06-20

Generations are used to explain everything from the state of the economy to attitudes about sexuality, but do they really explain anything?

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  1. Millennials Don’t Exist! Adam Conover at Deep Shift , 2016) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-HFwok9SlQQ
  2. Do Generations Exist? with Jean Twenge - Factually! - 219 , 2023) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BrOPmtYj8C8
  3. Post-Brexit Boomer blaming: The contradictions of generational grievance (Bristow, J., 2021) - http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0038026119899882
  4. Open letter to the Pew Research Center on generation labels (Cohen, P. N., 2021) - https://familyinequality.wordpress.com/2021/05/26/open-letter-to-the-pew-research-center-on-generation-labels/
  5. Can We Please Stop Talking About Generations as if They Are a Thing? (Costanza, D., 2018) - https://slate.com/technology/2018/04/the-evidence-behind-generations-is-lacking.html
  6. 5 things to keep in mind when you hear about Gen Z, Millennials, Boomers and other generations (Dimock, M., 2023) - https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2023/05/22/5-things-to-keep-in-mind-when-you-hear-about-gen-z-millennials-boomers-and-other-generations/
  7. Exxon Knew about Climate Change Almost 40 Years Ago (Hall, S.) - https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/exxon-knew-about-climate-change-almost-40-years-ago/
  8. The weird and disastrous rise of generational warfare (Korducki, K. M., 2023) - https://www.businessinsider.nl/the-weird-and-disastrous-rise-of-generational-warfare/
  9. The Sociological Problem of Generations (Mannheim, K., 1928) -
  10. It’s Time to Stop Talking About “Generations” (Menand, L., 2021) - https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021/10/18/its-time-to-stop-talking-about-generations
  11. Researching Homeownership Inequalities: A Life-Cycle Perspective (Moulton, S., 2022) -
  12. A Sociological Analysis of “OK Boomer” (Mueller, J. & McCollum, J., 2021) -
  13. Consciousness of Class and Consciousness of Generation (Murdock, G. & McCron, R., 2006) -
  14. How Pew Research Center will report on generations moving forward (Parker, K., 2023) - https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2023/05/22/how-pew-research-center-will-report-on-generations-moving-forward/
  15. Influences of socioeconomic status, social network, and competence on subjective well-being in later life: A meta-analysis. (Pinquart, M. & Sörensen, S., 2000) - http://doi.apa.org/getdoi.cfm?doi=10.1037/0882-7974.15.2.187
  16. Generations and Generational Differences: Debunking Myths in Organizational Science and Practice and Paving New Paths Forward (Rudolph, C. W., Rauvola, R. S., Costanza, D. P. & Zacher, H., 2021) - https://link.springer.com/10.1007/s10869-020-09715-2
  17. Key facts about housing affordability in the U.S. (Schaeffer, K., 2022) - https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2022/03/23/key-facts-about-housing-affordability-in-the-u-s/
  18. Millennials are killing the napkin industry (Schlossberg, M.) - https://www.businessinsider.com/millennials-hate-napkins-2016-3
  19. Why it’s time to ditch the ‘OK Boomer’ meme (Sunkara, B., 2019) - https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/nov/06/ok-boomer-meme-older-generations
  20. Thinking generations (White, J., 2013) - https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1468-4446.12015
  21. ‘#OkBoomer, time to meet the Zoomers’: studying the memefication of intergenerational politics on TikTok (Zeng, J. & Abidin, C., 2021) - https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/1369118X.2021.1961007
  22. MTV Generation https://xkcd.com/973/
  23. The sad, civilizational suicidality of the Zoomers who got to hand it to Osama bin Laden https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/the-sad-civilizational-suicidality-of-the-zoomers-who-got-to-hand-it-to-osama-bin-laden/ar-AA1k5YUl
  24. U.S. Homeownership Rate by Year [2024]: Facts & Figures https://ipropertymanagement.com/research/homeownership-rate-by-year
  25. The Emerging Crisis of Aged Homelessness: Could Housing Solutions Be Funded from Avoidance of Excess Shelter, Hospital and Nursing Home Costs? , 2019) - https://repository.upenn.edu/handle/20.500.14332/59950
  26. Boomers are not the enemy - YouTube , 2022) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HJl83vNuDL4&feature=youtu.be
  27. U.S. Homeownership Rate by Year [2024]: Facts & Figures , 2024) - https://ipropertymanagement.com/research/homeownership-rate-by-year
  28. Oliver (Olly) on Instagram: ‘In honor of Pride Month here’s a compilation of Mama LuLu being an LGBTQ+ ally throughout the years. 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ #pride @mama.the.great’ , 2024) - https://www.instagram.com/reel/C7y6qK2pKfC/

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