GENERATIONAL STEREOTYPING 01: COLLECTION

A collection of web links to articles about Generational Discrimination.

Philip Cohen claims that generational titles are meaningless, stereotypical and undermine our understanding of social change.

Generational labels do not capture the diversity of a generation, but they shape perceptions—defining somebody as Gen-Z etc, might say more about the person labelling than the person labelled.

We stereotype generations into groupings such as Millennials and Boomers to understand ourselves and those around us—but is this an oversimplification of a complex reality.

The author of this article argues that referring to ‘generations’—gen, x, y etc.—is pointless due to the variation of attitudes and abilities within those so-called categories.