(04-28-2019, 09:59 PM)NobodyImportant Wrote: I don't know whether it's because of the authors' scarce reliance on actually good data, or because they ... quite literally are out of touch boomers, but the brackets to put these generations into are nonsense.Are you aware that the generations concepts were largely assembled in the 1980's?
Also you are confusing cultural/experiential generations (the sort of things Pew measures) with historical generations (what S&H are talking about). They are different things.
For example, I compiled a composite of people observations of generational change to give these approximate dates for cultural/experiential generations.
1946-1962 Boom (Prophet)
1963-1980 GenX (Nomad)
1981-1994 Millennial (Rogue)
1995-XXXX GenZ (Civic?)
Historical generations are a categorization used by historians to characterize like-aged people who were forged into one or another mode of thinking because of their shared experience of living through history at particular times. Dating for such generations can only be finalized after the vast majority of the generation is either dead or senescent. We have final dating for the GIs, but not for any generations after that. The reason for this is that generations often play roles during elderhood that, along with the roles they played when younger, serve to define the generation. Two members of the Silent generation are running for president and the Speaker of the House is still a Silent. This generation is not yet finished.