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“Millennials Are Not Getting Married!” and “How to ____ with Generation MZ in the Workplace” are some newspaper headlines that have been featured in recent years.

The Gen MZ concept is everywhere and is often ____ to frame a generational conflict or explain a social phenomenon.

Can a generation-based approach help ____ our social issues?

And to what extent ____ our generation labels define who we are, or predict our behavior?

How Are ____ Classified?

Sociologists ____ generations based on an individual’s birth year.

The four most recent generations are baby boomers, Generation X, Generation Y (or ____), and Generation Z.

Baby boomers are named so because the birth rate was significantly higher when they were ____.

But since Korea and the U.S. experienced dramatic population ____ during different periods, their classifications of baby boomers differ accordingly.

In the U.S., baby boomers are people born between 1946 and 1964, but in Korea, baby boomers are those born between 1955 and ____.

Generation X (1965-1980) earned its name from the title of a book written by ____ Coupland in 1991.

According to the book, people in their twenties in that ____ had a relaxed and laid-back lifestyle.

The ____ generations, born after Generation X, were later called Y (1981-1996) and Z (1997-2012).

Members of Generation Y are also called ____ because they became adults with the beginning of the new millennium.

The cohort effect and the traditional notion of a generation are ____ related.

Broadly speaking, each generation is defined by the birth ____ of its members.

According to the theory of generational ____, individuals who belong to a particular generation are socialized in distinct conditions compared to other generations.

They experience similar political, ____, and social events during their early stages of life, which shape their beliefs, values, and behaviors in similar ways.

The cohort effect results in characteristic differences ____ generations.

For instance, Koreans went through the 1997 financial crisis, ____ known as the International Monetary Fund (IMF) crisis.

Gen Xers were in their ____ at that time, and thus experienced great employment instability.

This may have led ____ to prioritize secure employment for their children.

In contrast, ____ Zers grew up with smartphones, and this earned them the “digital natives” label.

They are ____ to getting their news, information, and advice from social media.

Their strength in using digital ____, however, often leads them to lack social skills.

Do Gen Xers only care about job stability ____ Gen Zers are entirely selfish?

Such simple classifications as this ____ prove to be accurate.

The life cycle effect suggests that major life events, such as leaving home, separating from parents, getting married, or having children, can alter ____ values and attitudes.

Many individuals say they used to be more adventurous and drawn to liberal ____ during their youth.

But they ____ to become more responsible after getting married and take fewer risks after having children.

A case in point is the assessment of ____ in the workplace.

In the early 2000s, ____ this group initially entered the job market, they were perceived as being less committed to their companies.

However, as they aged and ____ used to their roles, they began to be increasingly recognized as diligent workers.

This illustrates that the pursuit of freedom is more characteristic of youth than of a specific generation, as ____ attitudes and behaviors naturally develop during different life stages.

Apart from when a person is born or which life stage they are ____ through, some radical changes, like the climate crisis, affect all age groups.

According to some U.S. survey results, there was no significant ____ divide in recognizing the importance of climate change around the world.

Nearly half of each generation responded that the rise in world temperature is ____ dangerous.

Another survey conducted by German researchers showed similar ____ rates of ethical products between older and younger generations.

When baby boomers were young, ____ change was not such a prominent issue and therefore was not much of a concern.

But now, ____ of age, people across different generations are concerned about its effects.

These different perspectives suggest that we should be careful not to make ____ judgments about people according to their generation labels.

We don’t want to consider only ____ a person was born.

This can lead to overgeneralizations that don’t capture all aspects of a person’s unique ____ identity.

We should consider various perspectives, which will ____ us achieve a better understanding of people regardless of their generation.