Examples of baby boomer generation in the following topics:
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- However, while protests have an economic dimension, claims are usually articulated as a loss of culture or dismay over the homogenization and flattening of a formerly diverse neighborhood: gentrification generally increases the proportion of young, white, middle- to upper-income residents.
- The demographic explanation emphasizes the impact of the baby boomer generation, born after World War II.
- The new baby boomer residents departed from the suburban family idea, marrying later and having fewer children; women in the baby boomer generation were the first to enter the workforce in serious numbers.
- These first few suburban transplants, or urban pioneers, demonstrated that cities were viable places to live and began developing a type of inner-city chic that was attractive to other baby boomers, which in turn brought an influx of young affluence to inner cities.
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- This strain is occurring in the United States, where people born into the baby boomer generation of the 1950s–1960s are aging and reaching retirement age, thus tapping into Medicaid and social security funds at unprecedented rates.
- As nations develop, their life expectancy generally rises.
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- In 2008, 16% of Medicare enrollees were living below the poverty line, compared to 13% of the general population.
- The baby boomer generation, those born in the 20 years following World War II, is starting to reach senior citizenship and pull from these public funds.
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- The number of older Americans has spiked in recent years due to the age of baby boomers—the generation that was born in the twenty years following World War II.
- This generation is now beginning to enter their older years.
- While people in almost all countries are living longer than prior generations, people in industrialized nations still live longer than people in non-industrialized nations.
- Other factors include poverty and a generally more strenuous lifestyle, which can cause health problems and a lower life expectancy.
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- Often, such value change can be observed in generational differences.
- They are sometimes referred to as Generation Y or Milliennials.
- By contrast, their parents or grandparents tend to belong to the Baby Boom generation, born between 1946 and 1964.
- Baby Boomers did not grow up with the same technologies as today's youth.
- Whereas the generation before the Baby Boom was concerned with economic and physical security, Boomers tend to have what are referred to as post-materialist values.
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- Some of the effects for children at this age may include baby-like behavior such as old toys, a baby blanket, or even wetting the bed.
- In previous generations, being divorced or single was seen differently than it is now.
- This has resulted in less pressure for baby boomers to marry or stay married.
- Demographers estimate that baby boomers who remain unmarried will face more financial struggles than those who are married.
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- The parents, and certainly the babies, did not realize they were one of five pairs of twins who were made subjects of a scientific study (Flam 2007).
- Structural functionalists would say that socialization is essential to society, both because it trains members to operate successfully within it and because it perpetuates culture by transmitting it to new generations.
- A conflict theorist might argue that socialization reproduces inequality from generation to generation by conveying different expectations and norms to those with different social characteristics.
- For example, dressing baby boys in blue and baby girls in pink is one small way that messages are conveyed about differences in gender roles.
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- Sociologists and other social scientists generally attribute many of the behavioral differences between genders to socialization.
- Gender is included in this process; individuals are taught how to socially behave in accordance with their assigned gender, which is assigned at birth based on their biological sex (for instance, male babies are given the gender of "boy", while female babies are given the gender of "girl").
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- As such, culture is passed down from one generation to the next.
- However, nothing about our biology dictates whether a baby learns English, Spanish, or Tagalog.
- For example, before 4000 BCE, the gene that creates a protein that allows for the digestion of lactose was present in babies for consuming their mothers' milk, but then that protein would disappear after a baby was weaned.
- As such, over generations of using this cultural practice of animal domestication, the gene mutated to continue to produce the protein in adulthood.
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- There are a number of different approaches to measuring fertility rate—such as crude birth rate (CBR), general fertility rate (GFR), child-woman ratio (CWR), total fertility rate (TFR), gross reproduction rate (GRR), and net reproduction rate (NRR).
- General fertility rate (GFR) is the number of births in a year divided by the number of women of childbearing age (usually 15 to 49 years old, or sometimes 15 to 44 years old), times 1000.
- Gross reproduction rate (GRR) is the number of girl babies who would be born to a woman completing her reproductive life at current age-specific fertility rates.
- It assumes that all of the baby girls will grow up and live to at least age 50.
- NRR is always lower than GRR, but in countries where mortality is very low, almost all the baby girls grow up to be potential mothers, and the NRR is practically the same as GRR.