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The social generation is generally defined as people born from 1901 to 1927. [1] They were shaped by the Great Depression and were the primary generation composing the enlisted forces in World War II. Most people of the Greatest Generation are the parents of the Silent Generation and Baby Boomers, and they are the children of the Lost Generation.
Generation X (often shortened to Gen X) is the demographic cohort following the Baby Boomers and preceding Millennials.Researchers and popular media often use the mid-1960s as its starting birth years and the late 1970s as its ending birth years, with the generation generally defined as people born from 1965 to 1980.
The greatest generation (hero archetype), also known as the G.I. generation and the World War II generation, is the demographic cohort following the lost generation and preceding the silent generation. Strauss and Howe define the cohort as individuals born between 1901 and 1924.
Here is a breakdown of each generation and their widely accepted year ranges, according to the Pew Research Center. The Silent Generation: Born between 1928 and 1945 (ages 79 to 96)
The start and end of a new generation is sometimes vague, but these generation group names are often used for individuals born between the following years: Greatest Generation: 1901-1927. Silent ...
Newark Advocate Faith Works columnist Jeff Gill delves into what constitutes a generation, from Boomers and Gen X to Millennials, Gen Z and beyond. ... were born before about 1924; the formal ...
The Lost Generation was the demographic cohort that reached early adulthood during World War I, and preceded the Greatest Generation. The social generation is generally defined as people born from 1883 to 1900, coming of age in either the 1900s or the 1910s, and were the first generation to mature in the 20th century .
Gen X precedes Generation Y (aka millennials, born from 1981 to 1996), Generation Z (aka Zoomers, born from 1997 to 2012), and Generation Alpha (born in the early 2010s to the mid-2020s).