If one reckons the basic boundaries of the Millennial generation to be 1981-2000, then we are now nearly 8 years into the birth years of the post-Millennial generation. How might this new cohort be different from their well-publicized older peers? Strauss and Howe's methodology offers one possibility. According to their theory of the procession ...

While the AARP is open to anyone over 50 - a cohort which now includes increasing numbers of Baby Boomers - the organization's demographics now fall solidly across the pre-Boom Silent Generation (b.1925-1945), and it shows. Silents, in Strass and Howe's taxonomy, are considered an ''adaptive'' generation, motivated by a desire to infuse the ...

I just saw this review of a new book called Millennial Makeover: YouTube, MySpace and the Remaking of American Politics by Morely Winogrand and Michael Hais. The reviewer, Mike Connery, is himself the author of a book on Millennials in politics called Future Majority. The political implications of generational theory interest me at least as much ...

In the words of one of my favorite aphorisms, ''if all you have is a hammer, every problem looks like a nail.'' My hammer at the moment is generational theory, Strauss and Howe's view of the procession and relations between different cohorts in American history. Once you put on those goggles, everything from politics to pop culture snaps into a ...

Sad that the first post on the new blog concerns the passage of one of the most influential thinkers on the subject of generations and sociology: William Strauss, co-author of the monumental work Generations: The History of America's Future 1584-2069, as well as 13th Gen, Millennials Rising, and several other works. Strass, along with his ...