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Generations: The Real Differences Between Gen Z, Millennials, Gen X, Boomers, and Silents—and What They Mean for America’s Future
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A groundbreaking, “lavishly informative” (The New York Times) portrait of the six generations that currently live in the United States and how they connect, conflict, and compete with one another—from the acclaimed author of Generation Me and iGen.
Upending the conventional theory that generational differences are caused by major events, Dr. Jean Twenge analyzes data on 39 million people from robust national surveys—some going back nearly a century—to show that changes in technology are the underlying driver of each generation’s unique makeup. In this revelatory work, Twenge outlines key shifts in attitudes and lifestyle choices that define each generation regarding gender, income, politics, race, sexuality, marriage, mental health, and much more.
Surprising, engaging, and informative, Generations “gets you thinking about how appreciating generational differences can, ironically, bring us together” (Angela Duckworth, New York Times bestselling author). It will forever change the way you view your parents, peers, coworkers, and children, no matter which generation you call your own.
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Generations: The Real Differences Between Gen Z, Millennials, Gen X, Boomers, and Silents—and What They Mean for America’s Future
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NJ Kerr –
This book really is fascinating to read. The way it describes the differences between the different generations is thought provoking. I always knew that the perspectives were different but this really spells it out for the reader. If you are interested in the generation differences between Gen Z, Millennials, Gen X, Boomers and Silents then this is the book for you!
Tucker Mackenzie –
I’ve long been drawn to books that shed light on differences in human behavior, from personality types to personality disorders. But until recently, I’d never read much on generational differences, as I basically viewed age-group descriptions as stereotypical, divisive, and all too often derogatory. (You know, fodder for auto insurance commercials and the like.) Jean Twenge’s Generations set me straight. With an almost dizzying amount generational data, Twenge’s work makes it abundantly clear how we — our attitudes and behaviors — are profoundly shaped by the times in which we live, the generation with whom we come of age, and the technology on which we come to rely. Covering every generation alive today, she lays out all the differences. This book will benefit any reader of any age, in any field and walk of life. And that may well be an understatement.
While Generations is well worth the time, brace yourself for data overload. There’s a graph on virtually every page and a tremendous amount of analysis, too. It’s what gives this work real weight. But rest assured, the book is no chore to read. To me, it read like a data-infused US history book covering the past 100 years, only better. And with unexpected gifts. The book endeared me to my parents’ generation, removed the rose-tinted lens through which I’ve always viewed my own, and woke me up to the realities, challenges and potential consequences of my daughter’s high-tech, social media-driven world. That’s no small feat. In many ways, for me, the book wasn’t so much a type-caster as a myth-buster and bridge-builder.
That’s not to say you won’t always like what you read. Twenge isn’t shy about conveying what she sees as the good, the bad and the ugly in every living generation today — from the Silents and their Baby Boomer progeny to Gen X, the Millennials, Gen Z and the youngest generation whom she calls Polars (as in polarization and melting polar caps, not bears). If you’re like me, you might find yourself peeved and even a little anxious when she describes your generation’s issues and shortcomings and relieved when she gets around to its finer attributes. But the big picture she paints with her detailed generational descriptions makes clear that every generation plants the seeds of what sprouts in the next. It’s cause and effect, so you’d better pay attention. Major technological advances just keep coming and, as Twenge asserts, they not only shape generations, they define them and perhaps at our peril. After all, technology is always at least one step ahead of its safeguards. (Think of all the lives lost before seat belts and headrests.)
In its final section, Generations swings from descriptions to prophecies, offering a wide-angle view of the future, one that touches on everything from birth rates to work life to politics, the economy, technology, mental health and more. Twenge has all the data to back up her crystal ball, and her speculations and insights are not only logical but also riveting and concerning.
I highly recommend this work to anyone who wants to better understand their children, parents, grandparents, and peers. But it’s also a terrific resource for educators and academics, psychologists, social and political scientists, religious, political and corporate leaders, economists and virtually anyone in the fields of technology, e-commerce, and public policy. City planners and developers will benefit too. It’s the rare book that offers something for everyone. And if you’re lucky enough to be part of a multigenerational book group, choose it for your next discussion and please invite me. 🙂
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E. Jones –
In her most recent book, “Generations,” Dr. Jean Twenge has produced a spectacular volume that is the latest culmination of the work she has done to document and understand the characteristics of the various generations and to understand the differences between those generations. The direct concept of the book is to document the characteristics of the six generations that are alive at this time, the Silent Generation, the Baby Boomers, Generation X, the Millenials, Generation Z, and, as she calls them, the Polars. She does this in a very informative and interesting way, by focusing on various traits of the different generations. She uses the many very informative graphs as aids in order to explain those traits. A major example of this is in her chapter on the Millenials. She shows, certainly to my surprise, but with evidence that is hard to argue with, that the Millenials are doing considerably better financially than has generally been reported. Her basic point is that though the Great Recession certainly got them off to a slow start, they have essentially caught up in the time since then. Dr. Twenge then looks at the question of why Millennials feel poor even if they aren’t. She presents and discusses six possible explanations for this perception, looking at which of these possible explanations are more likely and then her conclusions as to where the truth lies. It is this detailed examination of traits that provides a lot of the fascination that this book provides.
The concept of there being different generations of people, who then exhibit common characteristics to a greater or lesser extent, along with differences from other generations, is one that is quite intuitive when we look at our history. Perhaps the greatest example of this that we are all familiar with is the generation prior to the Silent Generation, which is the generation that fought World War 2. The movie, “It’s A Wonderful Life,” which has now become a classic that is shown every Christmastime, illustrates this idea very well. The war affected everyone who came of age at that time. Millions of men were in the Army or the Navy. All of the women who came of age at that time were also greatly affected as well, for instance through the need to, as Donna Reed did in that movie, go through rationing of commodities, or be involved running drives for collecting different items needed for the war effort. And those that came of age at that time had also grown up during the Great Depression. It is inconceivable that there would not be a major effect on the attitudes and way of life that these people would lead following the end of the war that had dominated the lives of the generation that came of age during it. The Silent Generation, who were still children or adolescents at the time of World War 2, could not help but have a different experience from those who were directly involved with the war. They and the generation that fought World War 2 were the parents of the Baby Boomers, who were not alive at the time of the war. But the key characteristic of the Baby Boomers was that there were simply so many of them. The population of the United States in 1945 was about 140 million. The population of the United States in 1965 was about 195 million. In those 20 years, around 75 million babies were born, a major portion of that population. By comparison, even though a comparable number of babies were born in the Millenial Generation as were born during the Baby Boom Generation, they form a smaller percentage of the overall population. By the end of the period of the birth of the Millenial Generation, the population of the United States was 266 million, so the numerical impact of the Millenials is not as great as the impact of the Baby Boomers was.
I think it is the three generations of the World War 2 Generation, the Silent Generation, and the Baby Boomers that have focused attention on the importance of the construct of generations. Interestingly, Dr. Twenge goes against the idea of looking at historical factors in determining the way that generations have differed from one another over time. Instead, she points to technological change and development as the prime factor separating the generations, along with, as she calls them, technology’s daughters, individualism and the slow life strategy. As World War 2 has receded into history, her characterization of technology and it’s daughters, individualism and the slow life strategy, make sense to me as the driving forces for Generation X and the generations that have followed. But for those earlier generations, the World War 2 Generation, the Silent Generation, and the Baby Boomers, I don’t see how you can minimize how impactful World War 2 and the Great Depression were to those generations, either directly through their having lived through them, or indirectly, in the Baby Boomer case, by being the children of parents who were directly affected by the Great Depression and World War 2. One interesting consequence of this that I have heard came when the hippie culture emerged in the 1960s. The hippies were Baby Boomers. The parents of the hippies, who were of the World War 2 Generation and the Silent Generation, had difficulty understanding them. However, they say that many of the grandparents of the hippies had less difficulty understanding them because they had come of age to a great extent during the Roaring 20s, a time which had, among other wild things, speakeasys and flappers. And so hippie culture could remind the grandparents of some of the wildness that they lived through during the Roaring 20s!
The key to how much can be learned from this book are the many very informative graphs that are provided throughout the book. It is this information, put together from many sources, that makes this book so much more than Dr. Twenge’s opinions and shows it to be backed by a great deal of evidence. Her previous book, “iGen,” which was focused primarily on Generation Z, used this same method of graphs to illustrate her points. However, what she has done in this book greatly exceeds what she accomplished in “iGen!”
With regard to the Millenials and Generation Z, Dr. Twenge’s previous two books, “Generation Me” and “iGen” provided illustrations of those generations at the time that she wrote them. In this book, she has been able to update her descriptions of the Millenials and Generation Z to the present and it is fascinating how life has developed for those generations even in the relatively short number of intervening years since Dr. Twenge wrote those previous books.
As much as I admire what Dr. Twenge has accomplished in writing this book, perhaps the biggest item that I wish there was more on is the question of what caused the Baby Boom, particularly the length of time that it lasted. As she points out, the number of babies that were born was unprecedented. A big question is, why did the later World War 2 Generation and Silent Generation women (who were the mothers of the Baby Boomers) keep having baby after baby? As Dr. Twenge says, no one has ever come up with a definitive explanation of why the Baby Boom kept on going long after the obvious effect of the return of the servicemen from World War 2 had passed. I think the reason this question fascinates me so is that today, as is well known, birthrates keep on falling, not only in the United States, but throughout the industrialized world. Compared to this, the Baby Boom forms such a contrast that it makes me wonder. What were the characteristics that caused that to happen? And then, could those characteristics return or is the Baby Boom simply a historical curiosity, whose causes and characteristics are of no use to us today? One result of the Baby Boom, that I find interesting, is that without the Baby Boom producing so many children, the Millenial generation would not be as big as it is, relative to its adjacent generations. This is the case since, to a large degree, the parents of the Millenials are the Baby Boomers. One area that Dr. Twenge discusses is the politics and political power of the various generations, and the large number of Millenials derived from the large number of Baby Boomers would look to be setting them up for a lot of political power in the future.
Cliente de Amazon –
I wanted to learn more about other generations to assist with work teams and families. This is an excellent resource full of stats and charts to review the authors findings.
Samuel O. –
Nice printing a of a really good book.
Shane –
My parents were Boomers, I’m an X, and my kids are Zs – this book was satisfying 👍.
What I found most enjoyable was how much attention was put on Gen Z.
I was introduced to this book by an interview the author gave on TV and Generations seemed like it would be a good read. I was glad i got it. No doubt Jean did alot of research and put a ton of energy into real facts instead of opinion. Perhaps a bit of an overkill on the graphs but still made the book unique. I would recommend this book for someone who is interested in knowing more about the different generations and what makes them tick.
THE MARKETEER –
It is a great book for parents and even teachers to understand the dynamics of present young people and expectations.
Jessie Bell –
This is a great book. After reading it your view of the world, and the different generations will be transformed