IGen: The 10 Trends Shaping Today's Young People - and the Nation
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| Rating | : | 4.68 (679 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B073XS9RXH |
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| Number of Pages | : | 430 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2018-02-19 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
With social media and texting replacing other activities, iGen spends less time with their friends in person - perhaps why they are experiencing unprecedented levels of anxiety, depression, and loneliness. More than previous generations, they are obsessed with safety, focused on tolerance, and have no patience for inequality. An entertaining first look at how today's members of iGen - the children, teens, and young adults born in the mid-1990s and later - are vastly different from their millennial predecessors, and from any other generation, from the renowned psychologist and author of Generation Me. But technology is not the only thing that makes iGen distinct from every generation before them; they are also different in how they spend their time, how they behave, and in their attitudes toward religion, sexuality, and politics. iGen is also growing up more slowly than previous generations: 18-year-olds look and act like 15-year-olds used to. With generational divides wider than ever, parents, educators, and employers have an urgent need to understand today's rising generation of teens and young adults. Born in