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7/28/2019 The Generations

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Aaron DeupreeKirsty Gillies

Heike Koester

Feriha Ramadan


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Subgroups Subgroup (not subculture) according to Jandt

(2007): psychologists label this as a membership groupbased on vocation, hobby, or special skills, that, likecultures, provide patterns of behavior and values:these can be generational, occupational, expatriate,etc. These may pose communication problems withother subgroups just as the dominant culture theyexist within and depend on may clash with othercultures.


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Examples of Subgroups Examples include: Generation Xers, college freshmen,

prostitutes, vegetarians, doctors, teachers, DisneyCorp. employees, punks, bikers and lesbian culture.Sometimes they are also know as deviant culture,which has no negative connotation, but simply reflectsdivergence from the greater culture they exist within.Membership can be longlasting or temporary but it isnot exclusive. Like the larger cultures they exist within,members behave and think according to norms thesubgroup endorses or espouses.


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Argot (jargon, cant, slang) They can also be identified byargot, which is the

vocabulary of a subgroup, and is an important aspectof a subgroups identity and establishes the boundaryof the subgroup. Indeed, terms applied pejoratively toa subgroup can help establish that culture. In somecases, the subgroups adopt such terms and give themnew meanings and establish pride based on theidentity whereas the word might have been a source ofshame before.


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ActivityFor your date range, in your group, in the next 2-3

minutes, think of as many events, products, or otherimportant items you can think of for that era, andrecord it on the paper.

Can you identify any tendencies of that generation from

your own experiences or interaction with them?


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The GenerationsGeneration Year Other Names

Baby Boomers 1946 to 1964 (Wikipedia)(Strauss and Howe

Generations: 1943-1960)

Generation X (1961-1964) 1965 to 19811961-1984 (some articles)

Gen-X, baby bust(latchkey kids, video-generation)

Generation Y 1980-1999 (Wikipedia)1981-20001982-2001 (9/11)

Gen-Y, MillennialGeneration, Baby BoomEcho, Echo Boomers


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Demographers have not reached a

consensus on dates

Date ranges are guidelines and are not clearly defined.

Virtually every article read had different date ranges.At times, terms were used for radically different dateranges.


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The Baby Boomer Experience Sputnik; walk on the moon

New technology: transistor radios, television, space race

Sexual freedom, Roe vs. Wade, drug experimentation

Movements: civil rights, women, environment

Assassinations: JFK, Robert Kennedy, Malcolm X, MartinLuther King

Music: Rock and Roll, Beatlemania, Motown US (Woodstock, Vietnam War), India (independence),

Canada (Trudeau)

Source: Wikipedia


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Baby Boomer Characteristic

Tendencies Experimental

Individualism

Free spirited Social cause oriented

Source: Wikipedia


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Experiences of Generation X The Chinese government killed protesters in

Tiananmen Square.

The U.S. stock market crashed. The Chernobyl nuclear accident occurred.

The Exxon Valdez caused an oil spill.

The Challenger space shuttle exploded.

The first computer disk was sold.

Diana Oblinger


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Generation X

The generation X (1961-1984)

Generation X is consistently characterized by being the firstAmerican generation to grow up as latchkey kids having aset of parents working outside of the home.

Generation X grew up with:

cold war

a high divorce rate MTV

the first wave of computers and modern technology

socially acceptable and media-driven casual sex.


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Generation X in the workplace

Gen X requires flexible schedules, democraticleadership, variety in work duties, the ability to growskill sets and recognition.. It has come of age in the

information age, an era of constant activity, changeand ever developing global marketplace. After growingup with absent parents, they understand theimportance of being available to their families. X-ers

are also innovative thinkers who crave variety ofprojects in their positions and they like differentexperiences.


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Experiences of Generation YY2Curious: America's Generation Y has grown uparound various phenomena including the Internetwith online chatting, Wikipedia, YouTube and itsnumerous informational resources, digital video andmusic, Tickle Me Elmos, continued abuse of underagedrinking and iPods.

Sophia Yan

Yan, S. (2006, December 8). Understanding generationY. The Oberlin Review.


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Tendencies of Generation Y They are generally more financially savvy: saving for retirement,

and retirement benefits are very important Employee and employer loyalty have disappeared. Are less likely to be obsessed with work; They are more interested in preserving their quality of life, even

if it means staying at the same position in the labor hierarchy. Dress more casually Members of Generation Y are characterized as being more

racially and culturally tolerant than past generations. Gay rights and non-traditional gender roles have also become

more widely accepted.

Yan, S. (2006, December 8). Understanding generation Y. TheOberlin Review.


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European Millennials in the

WorkplaceCharacteristics

Mobile

Multilingual professionals

Work and play in Europe without borders

What do they want out of their work?

Money is not the most important thing.

Maintaining balance

Cultivate personal relationships

Leisure

They want to make a difference and feel they can.

Theyre not afraid to leave a job if its not what they want.

Young Europeans for the most part are most concerned with;

Environment

Global warning

Pollution

Ratnesar, R. Generation Europe. (2001, April 12). Time.


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Generations and Education


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Changes to Post-Secondary

Education Higher enrollment

More students attend college part-time than in

previous years More women are attending

More students are over the age of twenty-five

Several generations in one class at a time; professors

are still mostly Baby Boomers (50+), some older Gen-Xers (40+)


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The new Student Population Delayed enrollment (did not enter postsecondary

education in the student graduated from high school)

Part-time attendance

Work full-time, thirty-five hours or more, while goingto school

Are financially independent (Financial aid definition)

Have dependents

Are single parents

Are mature students, who have no high schooldiploma


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Tendencies of Millennials gravitate toward group activity

identify with their parents' values and feel close totheir parents

spend more time doing homework and housework andless time watching TV

believe "it's cool to be smart"

are fascinated by new technologies are racially and ethnically diverse

often (one in five) have at least one immigrant parent.


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Attitudes of Millennials Computers aren't technology

Typing is preferred to handwriting.

Staying connected is essential. There is zero tolerance for delays.

Consumer and creator are blurring.

Reality is no longer real. (Perspectives)

Doing is more important than knowing.

Learning more closely resembles games than logic.

Multitasking is a way of life.


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Millennial Generation Learning

Preference Tendencies Teamwork

Experiential activities

Structure Use of technology (students believe they are more tech

savvy than their teachers or professors)

Strengths: multitasking, goal orientation, positive

attitudes and a collaborative style.


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Implications for Educators and

School Cultures Schools, colleges and universities are providing a

various options to meet students' expectations forservice, immediacy, interactivity.

There is no one correct formula. Students often range in ages/generations, learning

styles, and preferences in communication.

Administrators and educators must adapt their facility,

curriculum, classes, etc. to meet the needs of such avaried range of students, taking into consideration thetendencies of certain generations, their preferencesand learning styles.


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Lang. S. (2001). CU sociologists book claims Generation Xersadopt chameleon personalitiesto cope with anxiety, fears. Retrieved March 6, 2005, from Cornell Chronicle:http://www.news.cornell.edu/chronicle/01/10.11.01/Rosen_book.html

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Cultural Borders and Mental Barriers: The

Relationship Between Living Abroad and CreativityWilliam W. Maddux and Adam D. Galinsky

Abstract: Despite abundant anecdotal evidence that creativity is associated with livingin foreign countries, there is currently little empirical evidence for this relationship.Fivestudies employinga multimethodapproach systematically explored the link betweenliving abroad and creativity. Using both individual and dyadic creativity tasks, Studies 1and 2 provided initial demonstrations that time spent living abroad (but not time spenttraveling abroad) showed a positive relationship with creativity. Study 3 demonstratedthat priming foreign living experiences temporarily enhanced creative tendencies forparticipants who had previously lived abroad. In Study 4, the degree to whichindividuals had adapted to different cultures while living abroad mediated the linkbetween foreign living experience and creativity. Study 5 found that priming theexperience of adapting to a foreign culture temporarily enhanced creativity forparticipants who had previously lived abroad. The relationship between living abroadand creativity was consistent across a number of creativity measures (including thosemeasuring insight, association, and generation), as well as with masters of businessadministration and undergraduate samples, both in the United States and Europe,demonstrating the robustness of this phenomenon.

Maddux, G. and Galinsky, A. (2009). Cultural borders and mental barriers: The relationshipbetween living abroad and Creativity. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 96/5.

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