CHAPTER+11+-+Age+and+Cohort

Drew's Part

Age and Cohorts
====**Age** has become a way for people to classify other people, almost like a ranking system. There are **babies, infants, toddlers, children, kids, preteen, adolescents, teens, youth, adults, middle-aged, mid-life crisis, mature, old, and senior**. Even though end the end its the same person, at some point in there life they will receive most of these names as a way of classification.====



====The issue with these names is that it tends to put people into a mind set, that you have to fit this time period. Everyone knows preteens/teens are the years that everyone tries to avoid. With hormones and testosterone flying off the chart. Teens starting to rebel now that they realize they have somewhat of a say but in the end they still really don't. Or mid-life crisis is the adult version of a teenager, because its usually when 50 comes around and older people now think they are old so they start trying to act young. They start purchasing more wild cars, going out to bars, a lot of people will darken there hair color if they are going grey. It is interesting to watch these age groups act and how different they are but in the end still so similar. They may be acting different but end old or young they are trying to reach an age they are not.====



====Each of these groups all share a common meeting ground call **generations**. This title of people has been now split into 2 groups Generation X (aka Baby Boomers) and also Generation Y (aka Millennium Generation). Generation X is what people refer to as the baby boomer generation, this was the post war generation when loved ones would meet back together after war and would produce children like it was their job. In this time period from 1946-1964 about 72 million baby boomers were born. Generation Y was what they refer to as millennium babies, these babies were born from 1976-1994 (arguably 1999). This generation did not come off as strong, but still stood their ground with 60 million babies born in this time frame. These generation are different in so many ways between electronics, music, entertainment, computers, literature, etc. But at the same time we share such common time frames. All of us experienced 9/11, the first black president, the killing of Osama Bin Laden, gas prices sky rocketing, Columbine. All of these are major land mark time periods that even though we are so spread across the chart we still have common time periods.====