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Cultural Generations

A cultural generation is a named, age-based group of people that assumes a great many different forms in societies around the world. In Europe and North America, it is a group of people who were born during the same period, often about 30 years, and refers loosely to everyone of approximately the same age living at approximately the same time. Common examples of usage in the United States include the “beat generation” and the “baby boom generation”. In other societies, especially in Africa, cultural generations are much more precisely defined as age classes, age grades and age sets. The concept pertains only to humans, is NOT associated with familial generations in the biological sense, and has its basis in sociology. Cultural generations are discussed in a separate article that deals specifically with that topic.