The Baby Boomers are the largest and most powerful generation in
American history-and they aren't going away any time soon. They
are, on average, whiter, wealthier, and more conservative than
younger ...generations. They dominate cultural and political
institutions and make up the largest slice of the electorate.
Generational conflict, with Millennials and Generation Z pitted
against the aging Boomer cohort, has become a media staple. Older
and younger voters are increasingly at odds: Republicans as a whole
skew gray-haired, and within the Democratic Party, the left-leaning
youth vote propels primary challengers. The generation gap is
widening into a political fault line. Kevin Munger marshals novel
data and survey evidence to argue that generational conflict will
define the politics of the next decade. He examines the historical
trends that made the Baby Boomers so consequential and traces the
emergence of age-based political and cultural divisions. Boomers
continue to prefer the media culture of their youth, but
Millennials and Gen Z are using the internet to render legacy
institutions irrelevant. These divergent media habits have led more
people than ever to identify with their generation. Munger shows
that a common "cohort consciousness" binds aging Boomer voters into
a bloc-but a shared identity and purpose among Millennials and Gen
Z could topple Boomer power. Bringing together expertise in data
analysis and digital culture with keen insight into contemporary
politics, Generation Gap explains why the Baby Boomers
remain so dominant and how quickly that might change.
Shaping the Futures of Work explores the impact of technological innovations on employment for millennials and professionals globally. In a flux society, what counts as a technological skill is ...always changing. Through a sociological study of Singaporean millennials, Raghunath suggests thriving through flux requires collaboration and proactive governance.
The Builders, Baby Boomers, Generation X, and Millennials-all make up workforces in every type of industry all over the world. The generational gaps are numerous and distinctly different between each ...age group, and Millennials have gotten a reputation for being particularly unique and often challenging. In this updated and expanded Second Edition of the popular guidebook Managing the Millennials, you'll see how Millennial traits are the same around the globe. In fact, Millennials are more alike than any other generation before them due in large part to rapid advances in technology that let us share more experiences together. These same rapid advances are also redefining the fundamental ways businesses operate, and this revised edition includes the international perspective today's valuable leadership needs to attract and retain these high-performing workers with very different values and expectations. With fresh research and new real-world examples, the powerhouse authorial team reexamines the differences between how different generations work today in businesses around the world, with insightful exploration into what makes the Millennial generation so different from the ones that came before. The authors reveal nine specific points of tension commonly arising from clashing value systems among generations and prescribe nine proven solutions to resolve conflict and build communication, nurture collaborative teams, and create long-lasting relationships among colleagues of every age. A wealth of informative tables and convenient end-of-chapter summaries make this an invaluable everyday reference to support you: Making the most informed decisions with up-to-date, research-based guidance on getting the most from twenty-something employees Executing solutions to the most common obstacles to younger workers engaging and learning from the people who manage them Enhancing your skills as a job coach with practical tips and hands-on tools for coaching Millennials, including concrete action steps for overcoming roadblocks Complete with case studies of real managers and employees interacting in every area of business, enlightening analysis of performance and behavioral patterns across generations, and easy-to-use techniques you can use right away to improve your organization, Managing the Millennials, Second Edition gives you everything you need to inspire your entire workforce to new levels of productivity.
A decisive intervention in the "war" between generations, asking who stands to gain from conflict between baby boomers and millennialsMillennials have been incited to regard their parents' generation ...as entitled and selfish, and to blame the baby boomers of the Sixties for the cultural and economic problems of today. But is it true that young people have been victimized by their elders? In this book, Jennie Bristow looks at generational labels and the groups of people they apply to. Bristow argues that the prominence and popularity of terms like "baby boomer," "millennial," and "snowflake" in mainstream media operates as a smoke screen-directing attention away from important issues such as housing, education, pensions, and employment. Bristow systematically disputes the myths that surround the "generational war," exposing it to be nothing more than a tool by which the political and social elite can avoid public scrutiny. With her lively and engaging style, Bristow highlights the major issues and concerns surrounding the sociological blame game.
Opting Out explores the theme of deviance as a form of protest in famous cult novels that have left an indelible mark on contemporary American culture - from Jack Kerouac's On the Road to Chuck ...Palahniuk's Fight Club. Adopting a generational lens, it centers on the deviant heroes and literary spokesmen of two major cohorts: the Baby Boomers and Generation X. Here for the first time the cult texts that defined these generations are submitted to a critical analysis that allows them to enter into a dialogue - or rather a heated debate - with each other. This opens new perspectives on the generation gap in America since 1945, offering a dynamic look at the role of youth as agents of social change and cultural innovation. The volume is of interest to students and researchers in contemporary American literature and culture, as well as to fans of cult fiction in general. The interdisciplinary approach to the themes of generational conflict and deviant behaviour also makes a significant contribution to the fields of sociology, contemporary history and cultural studies.
Attosecond pulses are central to the investigation of valence- and core-electron dynamics on their natural timescales
. The reproducible generation and characterization of attosecond waveforms has ...been demonstrated so far only through the process of high-order harmonic generation
. Several methods for shaping attosecond waveforms have been proposed, including the use of metallic filters
, multilayer mirrors
and manipulation of the driving field
. However, none of these approaches allows the flexible manipulation of the temporal characteristics of the attosecond waveforms, and they suffer from the low conversion efficiency of the high-order harmonic generation process. Free-electron lasers, by contrast, deliver femtosecond, extreme-ultraviolet and X-ray pulses with energies ranging from tens of microjoules to a few millijoules
. Recent experiments have shown that they can generate subfemtosecond spikes, but with temporal characteristics that change shot-to-shot
. Here we report reproducible generation of high-energy (microjoule level) attosecond waveforms using a seeded free-electron laser
. We demonstrate amplitude and phase manipulation of the harmonic components of an attosecond pulse train in combination with an approach for its temporal reconstruction. The results presented here open the way to performing attosecond time-resolved experiments with free-electron lasers.
Building on Karl Mannheim's theory of generations, this address argues that U.S. Millennials comprise a new political generation with lived experiences and worldviews that set them apart from their ...elders. Not only are they the first generation of "digital natives," but, although they are more educated than any previous U.S. generation, they face a labor market in which precarity is increasingly the norm. And despite proclamations to the contrary, they confront persistent racial and gender disparities, discrimination against sexual minorities, and widening class inequality—all of which they understand in the framework of "intersectionality." This address analyzes the four largest social movements spearheaded by college-educated Millennials: the young undocumented immigrant "Dreamers," the 2011 Occupy Wall Street uprising, the campus movement protesting sexual assault, and the Black Lives Matter movement. All four reflect the distinctive historical experience of the Millennial generation, but they vary along two cross-cutting dimensions: (1) the social characteristics of activists and leaders, and (2) the dominant modes of organization and strategic repertoires.
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