The Millennials are at hand! Millennials — that’s what sociologists call the generation of 18- to 33-year-olds now coming of age in America. A new study from the Pew Research Center details the nature of their unique location in American society as compared to earlier age groups that include Gen Xers (34-49), Boomers (50-68) and the Silent Generation (69-86). Pew research echoes previous findings published by Robert Putnam and David Campbell in American Grace and recently expanded by Paul Taylor in The Next America.
Pew’s research suggests that Millennials “are relatively unattached to organized politics and religion, linked by social media, burdened by debt, distrustful of people, in no rush to marry — optimistic about the future.” With 43 percent non-white, they are the nation’s most racially diverse generation, a minority that should become a majority around 2043.
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