Youth in Europe: characterizing the millennials

The entry discusses their identifying traits, definitions of parallel groups, their attitudes towards work, religion, culture and their political views.

Using demographic data, Stokes explains the differences with American millennials and their different political views depending on their country of origin.

The authors consider the differences that are found in different publications and refer to the book Generations: The History of America's Future, 1584 to 2069, by Neil Howe and William Strauss, who consider that the millennials are the people born between 1982 and 2004.

This research has been carried out with a sample of 830 people aged 18 to 29. It starts with an overview and is divided into different aspects: demography, technology, identity, work and education, family, lifestyle, politics and religion.

The millennials' birth range is defined as being between 1980 and 1999. The document discusses their structure, ideals and basic features.

It is located in one of the sections of Goldman Sach's portal, in which the image is complemented with statistics.

This document is hosted on the Pew Research Center's portal. This organization specializes in research and analysis of American society, focusing on social problems, public opinion and demographic trends.

It was presented at the 4th Congress of the Italian Society of Marketing on 5 and 6 October 2007. It describe the features of the American millennials, comparing them with other generations and with their European counterparts.

This document is hosted on the Pew Research Center's portal. This organization specializes in research and analysis of American society, focusing on social problems, public opinion and demographic trends.

The authors have posed themselves this question in the light of young people's diminishing participation in politics and the growth in protests, riots and revolts.

The authors believe that universities need to create a more open, participatory and inclusive environment if they are to gain these students' interest.

The study's results show that young people believe that they have few opportunities in real politics and that there is a considerable degree of variation in political leanings.

Written from surveys carried out among young people aged 15 to 30, this report holds particular interest for the European Union's strategy for motivating young people to take part in civil society and democracy.

Its basic proposal is a reconciliation between work, politics and pleasure. The paradigm shift in youth forces a change in political strategies to make them more interesting and appealing.

The resources are divided into social inclusion, political participation and economic crisis, all of them focused on youth.

This essay highlights the difficulty in explaining between-generation differences and the within-generation effects that have taken place. It concludes with the differences between today's youth and the previous generations.

Using a study performed with 40 Dutch teenagers, this document concludes that while there is considerable variation in the basic principles of democracy, they all lean toward majorities to the detriment of the interests of the minority.

The UOC spin-off Open Evidence produced this study for the European Commission. It includes a compilation of 50 best practices, with case studies outlining benchmark online initiatives encouraging youth participation, and interviews with 20 opinion leaders.

The study, carried out in Sweden, categorizes passive citizens depending on whether they are 'standby', disillusioned or unengaged. Active citizens also show different types of behaviour.

The document links the lack of political participation with neoliberalism and consumerism.

This is a protest generation, unlike their parents or grandparents, who belonged to a clearly political generation. If this trend is to be reversed, changes must be made in favour of youth.

The authors link this disengagement with the rise of neoliberalism and the economic crisis, which are the causes of youth's diminishing participation.

It also compares with the previous generation of Spanish youth and analyses the reasons for the depoliticization of youth.

The entry discusses their identifying traits, definitions of parallel groups, their attitudes towards work, religion, culture and their political views.

The author also describes the main features, gives examples and, from the author's profession as a teacher, suggests new ways of teaching more efficiently.

The document is based on a study performed in Slovakia, where the communication technologies are still in a development phase, and these generations' members comprise a dominant segment in this industry.