Please, Go On with James Hohmann

Sociologist Philip N. Cohen says generation labels are meaningless — and we should quit using them

07.09.2021 - By The Washington PostPlay

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Marketers love them. Journalists often use them. But do generation labels like "baby boomer" and "millennial" mean anything? Cohen, who researches social identity, says no — and he and other sociologists want the Pew Research Center to stop using them.

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