Ages? Parentage? years? Decades?
Im not in the same generation as my parents, and theirs 5 years between my brother and i, does that mean im the same generation or a differnet one to him?
Do i need to have children to create a new genreation myself, or is someone who's younger than me considered part of a different generation.
What if my parents are older or younger than my friends parents does that make them a differnet generation?
What makes someone part of a differnet generation?
2006-09-28 07:30:56 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Social Science ➔ Sociology
A Generation is the general Movement, however great or small, amongst an age group spanning to at least 5 years in range.
The current Generation is Generation X: A Generation much faster in communications and ten times as savvy technology wise as the one before, but reduced to domestic life with their parent and are generally not able to live independantly due to a restrictive economy.
2006-09-28 07:39:46 · answer #1 · answered by Aan 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Generation is the act of producing offspring. A generation can also be a stage or degree in a succession of natural descent as a grandfather, a father, and the father's son comprise three generations, however it is usually accepted that every generation skips a generation.
A generation can also represent all the people born at about the same time, sometimes called a generational cohort in demographics. Historians hold differing opinions regarding to what extent dividing history into generations is a useful analytical tool or an improper over-generalization.
William Strauss and Neil Howe, in their book Generations, list the generations of Anglo-America. Their definition of "generation" is given as a cohort-group, in which are all persons born in a limited span of consecutive years, whose length approximates the span of a phase of life given to be approximately 22 years, and whose boundaries are fixed by peer personality. Peer personality generational persona recognized and determined by common age location, common beliefs and behavior, and perceived membership in a common generation.
In biology, the process by which populations of organisms pass on advantageous traits from generation to generation is known as the theory of evolution.
2006-09-28 09:22:04 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
a generation to another one spans generally 20/25 years but legally in this country UK a second generation can be in 16years and 9 months so there really has to be an average time span and that's as i said above or 4 generations approx in a century
2006-10-01 04:16:38 · answer #3 · answered by srracvuee 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
To me generations are started everytime a baby is born into a family. This means that things will change by the time the new baby is old enough to bear a child. (society and technology changes).
2006-09-30 15:30:24 · answer #4 · answered by Big Bear 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you're talking straight up familial generations, your child would be the next generation in your line. I think.
But as for being generation X,Y, or whatever, that is dependent on the year you are born. Age would determine what generation you fall into.
2006-09-28 07:41:45 · answer #5 · answered by SammityvilleHorror 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
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2006-09-28 07:43:37 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
25 yrs one generation.
2006-09-29 20:47:34 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
20 years
of difference
2006-09-28 12:06:12 · answer #8 · answered by spyblitz 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
usually about 25years
2006-09-28 07:33:47 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋