Publication
Youth and generations in times of crisis: Portugal in the global situation
| Summary: | The discourse on generations is, presently, prolific and widespread in the public and political spheres. There is a sequence of letters to identify age cohorts born in distinct decades (generation “x”, “y” or “z”), as well as multiple categories to describe today’s young people as a generation distinct from the previous ones. The label Millennials – a chronological qualification initiated by Howe and Strauss (2000) to name the young people born after 1980 – became the most popular generational category in the media, underlining supposed specificities of the age cohorts that live the transition to adulthood in the turn of the millennium or later. |
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| Main Authors: | Ferreira, Vítor Sérgio |
| Subject: | Youth Millennials |
| Year: | 2018 |
| Country: | Portugal |
| Document type: | book part |
| Access type: | open access |
| Associated institution: | Universidade de Lisboa |
| Language: | English |
| Origin: | Repositório da Universidade de Lisboa |
| Summary: | The discourse on generations is, presently, prolific and widespread in the public and political spheres. There is a sequence of letters to identify age cohorts born in distinct decades (generation “x”, “y” or “z”), as well as multiple categories to describe today’s young people as a generation distinct from the previous ones. The label Millennials – a chronological qualification initiated by Howe and Strauss (2000) to name the young people born after 1980 – became the most popular generational category in the media, underlining supposed specificities of the age cohorts that live the transition to adulthood in the turn of the millennium or later. |
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