Generational Theory


Millennials Rising: The Next Great Generation
Pendulum: How Past Generations Shape Our Present and Predict Our Future: PDF Included
Millennials Go to College: Strategies for a New Generation on Campus
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Susan A. MacManus
The Next America: Boomers, Millennials, and the Looming Generational Showdown
The Baby Bust: A Generation Comes of Age
Generation We: How Millennial Youth are Taking Over America And Changing Our World Forever
Generation Me: Why Today's Young Americans Are More Confident, Assertive, Entitled—and More Miserable Than Ever Before
Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community
The Fourth Turning: An American Prophecy—What the Cycles of History Tell Us About America's Next Rendezvous with Destiny
13th Gen: Abort, Retry, Ignore, Fail?
Generations
Jostein Gaarder
A philosophical question is by definition something that each generation, each individual even, must ask over and over again.
Jostein Gaarder, Sophie’s World

One reason why the cycle of archetypes recurs is that each youth generation tries to correct or compensate for what it perceives as the excesses of the midlife generation in power. For example, Boomers (a Prophet generation, whose strength is individualism, culture and values) raised Millennial children (a Hero generation, whose strength is in collective civic action). Archetypes do not create archetypes like themselves, they create opposing archetypes. Your generation isn’t like the generation ...more
William Strauss

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