Millennials: Confident. Open to Change. February 2. This is part of a Pew Research Center series of reports exploring the behaviors, values and opinions of the teens and twenty- somethings that make up the Millennial Generation. Executive Summary. Generations, like people, have personalities, and Millennials — the American teens and twenty- somethings who are making the passage into adulthood at the start of a new millennium — have begun to forge theirs: confident, self- expressive, liberal, upbeat and open to change. They are more ethnically and racially diverse than older adults. They’re less religious, less likely to have served in the military, and are on track to become the most educated generation in American history. Their entry into careers and first jobs has been badly set back by the Great Recession, but they are more upbeat than their elders about their own economic futures as well as about the overall state of the nation.(See chapter 4 in the full report)They embrace multiple modes of self- expression. Three- quarters have created a profile on a social networking site. One- in- five have posted a video of themselves online. Nearly four- in- ten have a tattoo (and for most who do, one is not enough: about half of those with tattoos have two to five and 1. Nearly one- in- four have a piercing in some place other than an earlobe — about six times the share of older adults who’ve done this. But their look- at- me tendencies are not without limits. Most Millennials have placed privacy boundaries on their social media profiles. And 7. 0% say their tattoos are hidden beneath clothing. But at the moment, fully 3. Research shows that young people who graduate from college in a bad economy typically suffer long- term consequences — with effects on their careers and earnings that linger as long as 1. En Peliculotas nos dedicamos a subir peliculas completas en espa.
Two- thirds say “you can’t be too careful” when dealing with people. Yet they are less skeptical than their elders of government. More so than other generations, they believe government should do more to solve problems. One- in- four are unaffiliated with any religion, far more than the share of older adults when they were ages 1. Yet not belonging does not necessarily mean not believing. Millennials pray about as often as their elders did in their own youth. In weighing their own life priorities, Millennials (like older adults) place parenthood and marriage far above career and financial success. But they aren’t rushing to the altar. Just one- in- five Millennials (2. The Beatles: Eight Days A Week – The Touring Years is based on the first part of The Beatles career (1962-1966) the period in which they toured and captured the.About a third (3. Pew Research survey. We estimate that, in 2. This is a far higher share than was the case in earlier generations. Among 1. 8 to 2. 4 year olds a record share — 3. Looking back at their teenage years, Millennials report having had fewer spats with mom or dad than older adults say they had with their own parents when they were growing up. And now, hard times have kept a significant share of adult Millennials and their parents under the same roof. About one- in- eight older Millennials (ages 2. A majority say that the older generation is superior to the younger generation when it comes to moral values and work ethic. Also, more than six- in- ten say that families have a responsibility to have an elderly parent come live with them if that parent wants to. By contrast, fewer than four- in- ten adults ages 6. Despite coming of age at a time when the United States has been waging two wars, relatively few Millennials- just 2% of males- are military veterans. At a comparable stage of their life cycle, 6% of Gen Xer men, 1. Baby Boomer men and 2. Silent men were veterans. This was the largest disparity between younger and older voters recorded in four decades of modern election day exit polling. Moreover, after decades of low voter participation by the young, the turnout gap in 2. About half of Millennials say the president has failed to change the way Washington works, which had been the central promise of his candidacy. Of those who say this, three- in- ten blame Obama himself, while more than half blame his political opponents and special interests. To be sure, Millennials remain the most likely of any generation to self- identify as liberals; they are less supportive than their elders of an assertive national security policy and more supportive of a progressive domestic social agenda. They are still more likely than any other age group to identify as Democrats. Yet by early 2. 01. Obama and the Democrats had receded, as evidenced both by survey data and by their low level of participation in recent off- year and special elections. It’s likely that when future analysts are in a position to take a fuller measure of this new generation, they will conclude that millions of additional younger teens (and perhaps even pre- teens) should be grouped together with their older brothers and sisters. But for the purposes of this report, unless we indicate otherwise, we focus on Millennials who are at least 1. We examine their demographics; their political and social values; their lifestyles and life priorities; their digital technology and social media habits; and their economic and educational aspirations. We also compare and contrast Millennials with the nation’s three other living generations- Gen Xers (ages 3. Baby Boomers (ages 4. Silents (ages 6. 5 and older). Whenever the trend data permit, we compare the four generations as they all are now- and also as older generations were at the ages that adult Millennials are now. Most of the findings in this report are based on a new survey of a national cross- section of 2,0. Millennials), conducted by landline and cellular telephone from Jan. The report also draws on more than two decades of Pew Research Center surveys, supplemented by our analysis of Census Bureau data and other relevant studies. What’s in a Name? Generational names are the handiwork of popular culture. Some are drawn from a historic event; others from rapid social or demographic change; others from a big turn in the calendar. The Millennial generation falls into the third category. The label refers those born after 1. Generation X covers people born from 1. The label long ago overtook the first name affixed to this generation: the Baby Bust. Xers are often depicted as savvy, entrepreneurial loners. The Baby Boomer label is drawn from the great spike in fertility that began in 1. World War II, and ended almost as abruptly in 1. It’s a classic example of a demography- driven name. The Silent generation describes adults born from 1. Children of the Great Depression and World War II, their “Silent” label refers to their conformist and civic instincts. It also makes for a nice contrast with the noisy ways of the anti- establishment Boomers. The Greatest Generation (those born before 1. Ronald Reagan. It’s the generation that fought and won World War II. Generational names are works in progress. The zeitgeist changes, and labels that once seemed spot- on fall out of fashion. It’s not clear if the Millennial tag will endure, although a calendar change that comes along only once in a thousand years seems like a pretty secure anchor. Some Caveats. A few notes of caution are in order. Generational analysis has a long and distinguished place in social science, and we cast our lot with those scholars who believe it is not only possible, but often highly illuminating, to search for the unique and distinctive characteristics of any given age group of Americans. But we also know this is not an exact science. We acknowledge, for example, that there is an element of false precision in setting hard chronological boundaries between the generations. Can we say with certainty that a typical 3. Gen Xer while a typical 2. Millennial? Of course not. Nevertheless, we must draw lines in order to carry out the statistical analyses that form the core of our research methodology. And our boundaries- while admittedly too crisp- are not arbitrary. They are based on our own research findings and those of other scholars. We are mindful that there are as many differences in attitudes, values, behaviors and lifestyles within a generation as there are between generations. But we believe this reality does not diminish the value of generational analysis; it merely adds to its richness and complexity. Throughout this report, we will not only explore how Millennials differ from other generations, we will also look at how they differ among themselves. The Millennial Identity. Most Millennials (6. January, 2. 01. 0 survey say their generation has a unique and distinctive identity. That doesn’t make them unusual, however. Roughly two- thirds of Silents, nearly six- in- ten Boomers and about half of Xers feel the same way about their generation. But Millennials have a distinctive reason for feeling distinctive. In response to an open- ended follow- up question, 2. Gen Xers also cite technology as their generation’s biggest source of distinctiveness, but far fewer- just 1. Boomers’ feelings of distinctiveness coalesce mainly around work ethic, which 1. For Silents, it’s the shared experience of the Depression and World War II, which 1. It’s not just their gadgets — it’s the way they’ve fused their social lives into them. For example, three- quarters of Millennials have created a profile on a social networking site, compared with half of Xers, 3. Boomers and 6% of Silents. There are big generation gaps, as well, in using wireless technology, playing video games and posting self- created videos online. Millennials are also more likely than older adults to say technology makes life easier and brings family and friends closer together (though the generation gaps on these questions are relatively narrow). A nationwide Pew Research Center survey taken in 2. This one focused on differences between young and old rather than between specific age groups. Nonetheless, its findings are instructive. Nearly six- in- ten respondents cited work ethic as one of the big sources of differences between young and old.
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