Each successive youth cohort gets labeled as a distinct political generation

Evidence

The shock to Europe and North America by the revolting youth in the late 1960s popularized macroanalyses of epoch personality of successive brief waves of youth cohorts, assigned acronyms and other picturesque labels such as “teddy boys,” “skinheads,” “beats,” “flower children,” “punks,” “baby-boomers,” “yuppies,” “dincs,” “yucas,” and “Generation X,” showing that the concept of adolescent political generations is a tenacious one (Mannheim, 1923/1952; Jennings & Niemi, 1981; Jennings, 1987). — John T. Jost and Jim Sidanius, Political Psychology, 346

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: The youth political knowledge gap is a recent, cohort-driven development — Robert D. Putnam, Bowling Alone The Collapse and Revival…, 95