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Young participants take part in the Fridays for Future climate demonstration. Generational researcher Rüdiger Maas cites the equation of Gen Z with Fridays for Future and sustainability. Marcel ...

Gen Z is soft, millennials are embarrassing, boomers are evil, and no one has thought about Gen X in years. Even if we can't remember exactly which ages define each cohort, many people can offer up ...

The terms "Millennial," "Boomer," and "Gen Z" are thrown around constantly, often as shorthand for a set of stereotypes. But what do these labels actually mean, and which generation do you belong to?

Philip N. Cohen, a sociology professor at the University of Maryland, who researches social identity for a living, says no. He and about 150 others from the social science community wrote an open ...

What generation are you? Maybe you feel like a proud Gen Zer or Millennial. Or maybe, like me, you feel like the usual generational labels have left you homeless. Efforts to provide a label for my ...