...A baby boomer is a person who was born during the demographic Post-World War II baby boom between the years 1946 and 1964, according to the U.S. Census Bureau. The term baby boomer is also used in a cultural context. Different groups, organization and individuals may have widely varying opinions on what constitutes a baby boomer. Baby boomers are associated with a rejection or redefinition of traditional values. In Europe and North America boomers are widely associated with privilege, as many grew up in a time of widespread government subsidies in post-war housing and education, and increasing affluence. One feature of boomers was that they tended to think of themselves as a special generation, very different from those that had come before. The phrase baby boom has been used since the late twentieth century to refer to a noticeable temporary increase in the birth rate. According to the Oxford English Dictionary, the first recorded use of “baby boomer” is from 1970 in an article in the Washington Post. Howe, well known for their generational theory , define the social generation of Boomers as the cohorts born from 1943 to 1960, who were too young to have any personal memory of World War II, but old enough to remember the postwar American High. The generation can be segmented into two broadly defined cohorts: The leading-edge baby boomers are individuals born between 1946 and 1955. This group represents slightly more than half of the generation, or roughly 38,002,000 people of...
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...Generations: Baby Boomers Gen X & Gen Y Baby Boomer Information THE UNITED STATES CENSUS BUREAU CONSIDERS A BABY BOOMER AS A PERSON BORN BETWEEN 1946-1964 (WIKIPEDIA, DEFINITION, 2009) Description of Baby Boomers “Shockwave” “By the sheer force of its “Pig in the Python” “Baby boomers had a placid childhood in the 1950’s which helped inspire them to start their revolution” numbers, the boomers were a demographic bulge which remodeled society as it passed through it” Special Characteristics of Baby Boomers Boomers are associated with privilege because many grew up in a time of affluence Baby Boomer Baby boomer is a general term mainly used to describe those babies born during Post World War II Baby Boomer Identities Grew up in a time of social change A strong pull between a culturally strong older generation and a newer conservative generation Spiritual Beliefs 42% of all baby boomers walked away from formal religion 1/3 of all baby boomers never strayed from their religious beliefs ¼ of all baby boomers are starting to return to church, however their liberal views on abortion and homosexuality cause disagreements Boomers Coming of Age Around the World Britain Obsessed over Beatle mania Italy Wearing Mod Clothes and Buying the World a Coke India Focusing on new philosophical discoveries Canada United States Organizing Driving to support for Woodstock Pierre and organizing Trudeau, 15th against...
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...a specific characteristic that distinguishes it from the other. In short, the overall effect one generation has on the other depends on circumstances that existed during that period. We will examine generations referred to as Baby boomers, Generation X and Millennials and how their history helped to shape the world today. It is clear that these three generations are distinct in terms of their experiences, worldviews and beliefs. However, it is also evident that history shaped the development of each group, allowing the generation that followed to benefit from earlier periods in history, creating pockets of similarities across the decades. Experiences in their lifetimes The Baby Boomer Generation is the name given to persons born between “1947 and 1966” and was seen as the last generation that effected any great changes on American society. This generation was distinguishable by a significant increase in birth rates following World War II and is seen as one of the largest generations in the U.S. Baby Boomers are allied with a dismissal of traditional values. Experiences during this time shaped the Boomers and were contributory to the characteristic of rebellious as they were defined. Some of the memorable events for the Baby Boomers are the Cuban missile...
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...The Baby Boom Modern American History: 1950 to the 21st Century HIST101-X-1401B-02 Phase 1 Individual Project Brandi Hubbert 02/24/2014 A Baby Boom is pretty much a person that was born between 1946-1964. The generation of the Baby Boomers has a substantial amount that help makes up a portion of the North American population. The Baby Boomers has a significant impact on our economy by representing almost 20% of the American public. With the result of the Baby Boomers, they often have a set focus on the marketing campaigns and the different business plans. As I stated before the Baby Boomers has a very large of our population, but getting more to the point now, with them being around for so long and they have acquired a wealth being with the younger people that haven’t been able to save up any. The Baby Boomers control way over 80% of the people personal financial assets and more than 50% of the discretionary of spending up the power. Very important industries in the world now like the traveling industry and the medical industry are very dependent on the Baby Boomers. Back in the day there were about 79 million babies born during the Baby Boom. People that were born in 1946-1964 had grown up with the Vietnam War, Woodstock, and with John F. Kennedy being the president. Back in 2006, the oldest Baby Boomer out of everyone was turning 60 years old, which was already including the first two presidents we had and they were George W. Bush and William...
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...HIST101-1303A-08 Modern American History: 1950 to the 21st Century Phase 1 Individual Project Crystal Simpson The Baby Boom Being separated from families for long periods of time while serving in a combat zone is a feeling all too familiar, the only thing on a soldiers mind when they get home is making up for lost time. Soldiers serving in different armed forced from different countries coming home from their tours of duty overseas during World War II were eager to get back to their loved ones. Thus, resulting in the increase of births between the years 1946 to 1964. Many will argue different behind the increase of the births around the United States during this era. One of them being it was brought on because of the Cold War, to fight communism. But that would be further from the truth; simply put it was the result of plans being put on hold due to the Great Depression and World War II. Many American’s after the war looked forward to starting a family because of the growth in corporate America. Unions promised increase in salaries, so with more money comes the need to buy material items, something they went without growing up. The thought of providing a better life for their children, was not just going to be a dream, it was became reality. Like stated above, materialistic living became something to do, that also meant having a beautiful home to match the nice items being bought. That meant a demand for home developers such as William Levitt who...
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...During the 1960’s, the American people were a divided by cultural contrasts: peace marches and assassinations, flower children and Black Panthers. Moreover, the generation gap between parents and the Baby Boomers grew larger as protesting, drug use, and rock music became prevalent. Colleges saw an influx of students as the Baby Boomers became of age. Convoys of nervous individuals brought a rise in student solidarity against the Vietnam War. Not only were these students against the war for political reasons, but upon graduation they would become eligible to be drafted to fight. “Whether they volunteered or were drafted, one out of ten soldiers were injured or killed in Vietnam.” Many draft card holders fled to Canada while others took a...
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...Modern "counterculture" Experienced Vietnam War/Cold War Rise of Mass Media/end of the Cold War Rise of the Information Age/Internet/War on Terror/Iraq War/Rising Gas and Food Prices Rise of the Information Age/Internet/dot com bubble Digital Globalization 20th century Baby Boomers Boom Generation / Hippie Baby Busters Generation X MTV Generation / Boomerang Generation Generation Y Echo Boom 1978 (Generation McGuire) 1990 New Silent Generation 1995 2007 21st century Generation Z Greatest Generation The Greatest Generation is a term for those Americans who fought in World War II, as well as those who kept the home front intact during it. Some of those who survived the war then went on to build and rebuild United States industries in the years following the war. The Silent Generation was the generation born between the two World Wars, who were too young to join the service when World War II started. Many had fathers who served in World War I. It was coined in the November 5, 1951 cover story of Time to refer to the generation within the United States coming of age at the time. The article, (which defined the generation at the time as born from 1923 to 1933), found its characteristics as grave and fatalistic, conventional, possessing confused morals, expecting disappointment but desiring faith, and for women, desiring both a career and a family. Baby Boomers The Baby Boomers were the generation born just after World War II, a time that included a 14-year...
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...history, four generations are working side by side. Different values, experiences, styles, and activities create misunderstandings and frustrations By the year 2014, 70 million Baby Boomer (including many teachers and school leaders) will entire retirement in large numbers Generation X, a generation with different sensibilities and priorities than Boomers, will assume positions of leadership in schools and districts The Generational Divide (U.S. Population) Traditionalists Baby Boomers Generation X Generation Y/Millennials Born 1925-1945 50 million GWAEA 6% (28) Born 1946-1964 80 million GWAEA 70% (341) Born 1965-1980 46 million GWAEA 22% (110) Born 1981-2006 76 million GWAEA 2% (9) Traditionalists (61+) Influences Great Characteristics Patriotic Depression Roaring 20’s WWI and II Korean War GI Bill loyal “waste not want not” Faith in institutions— one company career Military influenced top down approach KEY WORD: LOYAL Traditionalists (61+) Value Logic and Discipline Like Change to Build a Legacy Don’t Want Baby Boomers (42-60) Influences Suburbia TV Characteristics Idealistic Watergate Protests, Human Rights Movement Drugs & Rock ‘n Roll Vietnam, COMPETITIVE Question Authority KEY WORD: Optimist Baby Boomers (42-60) “Me” Generation Title, Recognition Money, Want to Build A Stellar Career Generation X (26-41) Influences Sesame Characteristics Eclectic...
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...From World War I to the World Wide Web: traditionalists, baby boomers, generation Xers and Millennials at work. The article written by Lynn Lancaster and David Stillman: “From World War I to the World Wide Web: traditionalists, baby boomers, generation Xers and millennials at work” is an excerpt from a book written by Lancaster and Stillman entitled , “When Generations Collide: Who They Are. Why They Clash. How to Solve the Generational Puzzle at Work.” This article discusses four separate distinct generations that make up the modern day workforce. The Traditionalists or individuals born between 1900 and 1945 make up approximately seventy-five million people. The largest population ever born in this country, the Baby Boomers, born between 1946-1964, total approximately eighty million. The smallest numbered group of approximately forty-six million, the Generation Xers, were born between 1965-1980, and the Millennials, born between 1981-1999, make up of approximately seventy-six million. Lancaster and Stillman, (2003). Sandra Gibson in her article, “E N H A N C I N G: Intergenerational Communication in the Classroom: Recommendations for Successful Teacher-Student Relationships”, discusses how the generations differ. Traditionalists, many of which have made up the labor pool for thirty years or more are often described as loyal, ethical, and hardworking, placing high value on formality, respect for authority and security of past successes. Gibson (2009). Baby Boomer are known...
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...naturally. There is a stark contrast between two generations in our current society. They are the “baby boomer” generation, people born from 1946-1964, and the new “millennial” generation, those born in 1982 and approximately the twenty years thereafter” (Bump, 2014). Millennials have grown up in a digital age with almost instant access to anything they could ever want like food, education, knowledge, media, tools, and technology. At the push of a button, the internet can provide the entirety of human history and as a result, advances in all professional fields have grown in leaps and bounds. With all the good, the bad is equally as apparent with the civil unrest we have been experiencing over the last couple years, the spike in medical requirements for “anxiety” and a whole host of other issues that are indicators of people who lack resiliency and the values required to deal with adversity in a healthy manner. Conversely, there are the baby boomers - a generation of people who accomplished everything they ever focused and set their sights on. “Baby boomers are famed for their work ethic and commitment to getting the job done. Although inter-generational friction can be a normal by-product of different upbringings, it’s safe to say that the work-life balance of boomers traditionally includes a little more ‘work’ than ‘life’” (Gordon, 2016). If asked why boomers are compelled to work so hard, the answer is obvious, they were raised in a time when they had no other choice...
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...Bellamy 07/15/2013 THE BABY BOOM During the Great Depression the marriage rate fell as uncertainty over economic conditions caused people to postpone decisions that would significantly affect their lives. Birthrates also dropped: pessimism shrouded Americans' expectations of a promising future for themselves and their children. After World War II ended, however, prospects seemed considerably brighter. Young Americans returned home from war in 1945 ready to reap the benefits of victory and a prospering economy. Accordingly, there were almost 2.3 million marriages in 1946, an increase of more than six hundred thousand over the previous year. Many of these newlyweds had children within a year: a record 3.8 million babies were born in 1947. This was the first year of the baby boom, which lasted for most of the 1950s. Between 1948 and 1953 more babies were born than had been over the previous thirty years. In 1954 a record birthrate, a low death rate, and an influx of 144,000 immigrants created the largest one-year population gain in U.S. history. (Thomson Gale) In the United States, the term Baby Boomers commonly applied to people with birth years after World War II and before the Vietnam War. A large part of the cause of the Baby Boom was an after effect of World War II where the bombed out cities and fractured economies increased the needs for goods and services in unprecedented peacetime...
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...Suicide and the Baby Boomer Generation Rob Kovack ITT Technical Institute Abstract The rate of suicide among white baby boomer men has increased dramatically from 1999 to 2010. Many professionals and academics have conducted extensive research to find a conclusion for this unexplained trend among the boomer generation. Professionals such as Dr. Phillips and Augustine J. Kposowa, have different theories that were determined by their own studies and research. The theories range from marital problems and social isolation to the economy and long-term unemployment. The CDC statics confirm that the causes of death are by firearms, suffocation, and poisoning. The increase of poisoning suicides has been due to prescription pain medication overdoses. Thomas Joiner believes in suicidal behaviors and characteristics in all ages and sex, not as a predisposed category of individuals. Leonard Steinhorn disagrees with the CDC statistics for the suicide rate in boomers and conveys his own research that was created by two doctors. Although, this chart contradicts the CDC statistics, it is also not as credible as a government agency that specifically analyzes suicide research on a daily basis. Suicide and the Baby Boomer Generation Suicide has been plaguing our society for decades and has no intention of declining any time soon. The latest Mortality Report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported a 30 percent increase in middle-aged Americans committing...
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...In Christian Appy's, Working-Class War he states that out of the 3 million men deployed in the Vietnam War most of them were from blue-collar environments and only had a high school diploma. He also points out that black men fighting in the war were more likely to see battle and not make it to officer status. Throughout the assigned section to read, Appy clearly backs up these accusations and concludes that those with higher incomes were seldom drafted and officers were almost always white men. Appy strongly backs up his statement of the majority of the men sent to fight in Vietnam were young men from working-class homes. He brings up that three cities, Milton, Lexington, and Wellesley, had a total of 100,000 men deployed during the war. That is as much...
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...(Jones) To change this country and move it forward in a positive manner, the United States cannot continue to allow those over 65 to vote. As stated by Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, a professor at Harvard University with a doctorate in history, supporting that change is necessary, “A first-year student at a California university told me that to make history, people need to do the unexpected” (Bullock, Daly Goggin, and Weinberg 660). As the United States grows, the Millennial generation is coming to outnumber the baby boomer generation by nearly half a million. (Fry) The Millennials show themselves to be a more open-minded and accepting generation as well as a generation that sees the need for change to preserve the world as a whole. As can be shown by Gallup Polls from 2014, 48% of people over 65 years of age, the Baby Boomers and traditionalists, identify themselves as conservative, while only 28% of Millennials identify themselves as conservative (Jones). With the fact that 61% of people over the age of 65 voted in the 2012 presidential election, and only a mere 21% of Millennials voted (Brandon), looking at the numbers, the reality is that the conservative candidate is more than likely to win. As a country, if we ever want to see ourselves succeed and strive, we must amend the...
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...Generational Diversity in the Workplace Managerial Communications 10/14/2011 Today, the workplace environment is comprised of people, both males and females from all different cultures and generations. For the first time in U.S. history there are four different generations out in the workforce. A generation can be defined as a group of individuals born within a term years having similar ideas, goals, attitudes and experiences. It can also be defined as the average period between the birth of parents and the birth of their children. Resources differ as to when some generations start and end; a generation is usually around 20 years long. generational differences are based on broad variations in values that develop based on the contrasting environment and social dynamics each generation experiences as they come of age. In the workplace, these differences seem to be generating clashes around work-life balance, employee loyalty, authority, and other important issues.Generational differences are based on broad variations in values that develop based on the contrasting environment and social dynamics each generation experiences as they come of age. In the workplace, these differences seem to be generating clashes around work-life balance, employee loyalty, authority, interpersonal relationships and other important issues (Notter, 2007). Sometimes contradictions and problems arise when identifying the characteristics of a generation. Some studies in the 1980’s described...
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