BUSN 1201 Chapter Notes - Chapter All: Decision-Making, Media Consumption, Silent Generation

• School: Northeastern University
• Department: Business Administration
• Course: BUSN 1201
• Professor: Tad Mc Ilwraith

Document Summary

Median income and homeownership on the rise for second-generation. Illegal immigrants live under the threat of employer exploitation and government deportation. Face of the usa: pluralism, dynamism, tolerance, entrepreneurship, achievement, and optimism. Ch. 1 introduction : longer lives, fewer babies, more immigrants, hispanics and asians: republicans, less wasp in government: less religious denominations, middle class, less marriage, polarized politics. Digital technology, coddle by parents, respectful of elders, conflict-adverse, ease with racial, ethnic, and sexual diversity: gen xers (1965-1980) Savvy, entrepreneurial, distrustful of government, divorce, more comfortable with diversity. Older xers = more republican, younger xers = more democratic: baby boomers (1946-1964) Most feel it has been a change for worse except for millennials: news consumption. Ch. 8 whither marriage : younger generations = less marriage, greater decrease in people without college degree, women in the workforce, birth-control, more birth to unmarried women, divorce has been declining for the past few decades.