What if You Were Born 50 Years Earlier?
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The United States is currently home to six generations of people. With her clear-eyed and insightful voice, Twenge explores what the Silents and Boomers want out of the rest of their lives; how Gen X-ers are facing middle age; the ideals of Millennials as parents and in the workplace; and how Gen Z has been changed by COVID, among other fascinating topics.
Shermer and Twenge discuss: untangling interacting causal variables (age, gender, race, religion, politics, SES, big events, slow trends, time-period effects, and generational effects) \\u2022 fuzzy sets/conceptual categories \\u2022 how historical events effect generations: the Great Depression, WWII, the Cold War and its end, AIDS, 9/11, The Great Recession, Covid-19, #metoo, #BLM, trans, AI \\u2022 how long-term trends effect generations \\u2022 technology as a driver of generational differences \\u2022 civil rights, women\\u2019s rights, gay rights, trans rights \\u2022 abortion and reproductive choice \\u2022 education \\u2022 religion \\u2022 marriage, children, home ownership, sex, birthrates, divorce \\u2022 happiness, meaningfulness, purpose \\u2022 mental health.
Jean M. Twenge, PhD, a professor of psychology at San Diego State University, is the author of more than a hundred scientific publications and several books based on her research, including Generations, iGen, and Generation Me. Her research has been covered in Time, The Atlantic, Newsweek, the New York Times, USA TODAY, and the Washington Post. She has also been featured on Today, Good Morning America, Fox and Friends, CBS This Morning, and NPR. She lives in San Diego with her husband and three daughters.
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