LING1901 Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Pew Research Center, Baby Boomers, Baby Boom
16 May 2018
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LING1901 LECTURE 18
GENERATIONAL DISCOURSE
-Generational gaps
•US terminology
-People born after WWII: Baby boom generation
-People born before that time
-Bridging the generational gap
•Communication across groups of people from different generations is intercultural communication
•Pew Research Centre study of generations in the US released in 2009 found huge cross-generational
differences regarding political, social and technological issues
•“Largest generation gap since the 1960s”
-How do generational differences emerge?
•Generational subculture theory
-Beliefs and social practices of a given generation shaped by the events occurring during the (adolescent)
lives of their members
-Participants share a particular “worldview”
•Life-cycle theory
-Behaviour and beliefs of every generation will evolve through predictable stages
-People become universally more conservative and collectivistic as they grow older
•In reality…
-A combination of both theories helps explain the choices people of different generations make
-Generations of North Americans
•Authoritarians
-Born 1914-1928
-Age 82-96 in 2010
•Depression/War
-Born 1929-1945
-Age 65-81 in 2010
•Baby Boomers
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Document Summary
People born after wwii: baby boom generation. Bridging the generational gap: communication across groups of people from different generations is intercultural communication, pew research centre study of generations in the us released in 2009 found huge cross-generational differences regarding political, social and technological issues. How do generational differences emerge: generational subculture theory. Beliefs and social practices of a given generation shaped by the events occurring during the (adolescent) lives of their members. Participants share a particular worldview : life-cycle theory. Behaviour and beliefs of every generation will evolve through predictable stages. People become universally more conservative and collectivistic as they grow older. A combination of both theories helps explain the choices people of different generations make. Age 65-81 in 2010: baby boomers. Age 46-64 in 2010: gen x. Begins embracing of technology: gen y. Age 29-16 in 2010: gen z. High sense of authority versus low need for expression of own desires: depression/war generation.
