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 ...

Dan has a post up at Future of Information Work on the question of whether Millennials are actually different in important ways from previous generations of young people (and young workers), or if they are just ''troublesome'' to employers because all 20-somethings inherently lack commitment and tend to take a short-term view of employment. ...

Generation Blend draws most of its data about generational attitudes and experiences from the United States. There's every reason to believe that the digital age gap exists around the world, especially in societies that made an abrupt transition from pre-industrial economies to information economies. However, it's not clear to me how the ...

Washington Post political writers Morley Winograd and Michael Hais take a generational view of US politics in the context of Barack Obama's presidential run. Washington Monthly's Kevin Drum isn't buying. The New York Times connects increasing fertility rates in the US (we are back up to 2.1 children per family, replacement level, for the first ...

One of the tropes that seems to recur with depressing regularity in the American generational cycle is the death of a prominent young male celebrity - often among the first of his cohort to achieve fame in popular culture - just at the moment when his generation is arriving into adulthood. What's more, these particular young ...

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 ...

My wife and I have belatedly discovered the fantastic new series Mad Men, currently re-running its first season on AMC or available on iTunes. Created by Matthew (“The Sopranos”) Weiner, it’s a dark comedy/drama set in a Madison Avenue ad agency in 1960. It’s not only a terrific character-based story; the period detail is incredible. We had fun ...

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 ...