Generation Z, the Glossary
Generation Z (often shortened to Gen Z), also known as Zoomers, is the demographic cohort succeeding Millennials and preceding Generation Alpha.[1]
Table of Contents
302 relations: Academic achievement, Accenture, Adam Alter, Alcohol consumption by youth in the United States, Amazon Alexa, American Optometric Association, Amish, Anime, Antifeminism, Anxiety, App Store (Apple), Aramark, Associated Press, Atheism, Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, Attention span, Australian Bureau of Statistics, Autism, Baby boomers, Bain & Company, Behavior, Birth control, Bisphenol A, Blank piece of paper, Body image, Body mass index, Boomerang Generation, British Board of Film Classification, British Social Attitudes Survey, Brookings Institution, Bruce Tulgan, Caffeine, Canadian Mental Health Association, Canadian Paediatric Society, Cannabis (drug), Cannabis in Canada, Cannabis in the United States, Cannabis in Uruguay, Canon (fiction), Cartoon Network, CBS News, Cecilia R. Aragon, Chaebol, Child marriage, Christianity, Christians, CNBC, Coefficient of variation, Cognitive impairment, Cohort (statistics), ... Expand index (252 more) »
Academic achievement
Academic achievement or academic performance is the extent to which a student, teacher or institution has attained their short or long-term educational goals.
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Accenture
Accenture plc is an American multinational professional services company headquartered in Dublin for tax reasons, specializing in information technology (IT) services and consulting.
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Adam Alter
Adam Alter is a marketing author who also teaches at New York University Stern School of Business.
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Alcohol consumption by youth in the United States
Although the minimum legal age to purchase alcohol is 21 in all U.S. states and most territories (see National Minimum Drinking Age Act), the legal details for consumption vary greatly.
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Amazon Alexa
Amazon Alexa, or, Alexa, is a virtual assistant technology largely based on a Polish speech synthesizer named Ivona, bought by Amazon in 2013.
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American Optometric Association
The American Optometric Association (AOA), founded in 1898, represents approximately 37,000 doctors of optometry, optometry students and para-optometric assistants and technicians in the United States.
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Amish
The Amish (Amisch; Amische), formally the Old Order Amish, are a group of traditionalist Anabaptist Christian church fellowships with Swiss and Alsatian origins.
Anime
is hand-drawn and computer-generated animation originating from Japan.
Antifeminism
Antifeminism, also spelled anti-feminism, is opposition to feminism.
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Anxiety
Anxiety is an emotion which is characterised by an unpleasant state of inner turmoil and includes feelings of dread over anticipated events.
App Store (Apple)
The App Store is an app marketplace developed and maintained by Apple, for mobile apps on its iOS and iPadOS operating systems.
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Aramark
Aramark is an American food service and facilities services provider to clients in areas including education, prisons, healthcare, business, and leisure.
Associated Press
The Associated Press (AP) is an American not-for-profit news agency headquartered in New York City.
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Atheism
Atheism, in the broadest sense, is an absence of belief in the existence of deities.
Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder
Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is a neurodevelopmental disorder characterised by executive dysfunction occasioning symptoms of inattention, hyperactivity, impulsivity and emotional dysregulation that are excessive and pervasive, impairing in multiple contexts, and otherwise age-inappropriate.
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Attention span
Attention span is the amount of time spent concentrating on a task before becoming distracted.
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Australian Bureau of Statistics
The Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) is an Australian Government agency that collects and analyses statistics on economic, population, environmental, and social issues to advise the Australian Government.
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Autism
Autism, also called autism spectrum disorder (ASD) or autism spectrum condition (ASC), is a neurodevelopmental disorder characterised by symptoms of deficient reciprocal social communication and the presence of restricted, repetitive and inflexible patterns of behavior that are impairing in multiple contexts and excessive or atypical to be developmentally and socioculturally inappropriate.
Baby boomers
Baby boomers, often shortened to boomers, are the demographic cohort preceded by the Silent Generation and followed by Generation X. The generation is often defined as people born from 1946 to 1964 during the mid-20th century baby boom. Generation Z and baby boomers are 20th century.
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Bain & Company
Bain & Company is an American management consulting company headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts.
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Behavior
Behavior (American English) or behaviour (British English) is the range of actions and mannerisms made by individuals, organisms, systems or artificial entities in some environment.
Birth control
Birth control, also known as contraception, anticonception, and fertility control, is the use of methods or devices to prevent unintended pregnancy.
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Bisphenol A
Bisphenol A (BPA) is a chemical compound primarily used in the manufacturing of various plastics.
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Blank piece of paper
Blank pieces of paper, posters and placards have been used a form of protest.
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Body image
Body image is a person's thoughts, feelings and perception of the aesthetics or sexual attractiveness of their own body.
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Body mass index
Body mass index (BMI) is a value derived from the mass (weight) and height of a person.
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Boomerang Generation
In Western culture the Boomerang Generation refers to the generation of young adults graduating high school and college in the 21st century.
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British Board of Film Classification
The British Board of Film Classification (BBFC) is a non-governmental organisation founded by the British film industry in 1912 and responsible for the national classification and censorship of films exhibited at cinemas and video works (such as television programmes, trailers, adverts, public information/campaigning films, menus, bonus content, etc.) released on physical media within the United Kingdom.
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The British Social Attitudes Survey (BSA) is an annual statistical survey conducted in Great Britain by National Centre for Social Research since 1983.
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Brookings Institution
The Brookings Institution, often stylized as Brookings, is an American think tank that conducts research and education in the social sciences, primarily in economics (and tax policy), metropolitan policy, governance, foreign policy, global economy, and economic development.
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Bruce Tulgan
Bruce L. Tulgan (born June 27, 1967 in Pittsfield, Massachusetts) is an American writer specializing in management training and generational diversity in the workforce.
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Caffeine
Caffeine is a central nervous system (CNS) stimulant of the methylxanthine class.
Canadian Mental Health Association
The Canadian Mental Health Association (CMHA) is a Canadian non-profit mental health organization that focuses on resources, programs and advocacy.
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Canadian Paediatric Society
The Canadian Paediatric Society (CPS) is a national association of paediatricians.
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Cannabis (drug)
Cannabis, also known as marijuana or weed, among other names, is a non-chemically uniform drug from the cannabis plant.
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Cannabis in Canada
Cannabis in Canada is legal for both recreational and medicinal purposes.
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Cannabis in the United States
The use, sale, and possession of cannabis containing over 0.3% THC by dry weight in the United States, despite laws in many states permitting it under various circumstances, is illegal under federal law.
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Cannabis in Uruguay
Cannabis is legal in Uruguay, and is one of the most widely used drugs in the nation.
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Canon (fiction)
The canon of a work of fiction is "the body of works taking place in a particular fictional world that are widely considered to be official or authoritative; those created by the original author or developer of the world".
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Cartoon Network
Cartoon Network (often abbreviated as CN) is an American cable television channel owned by Warner Bros. Discovery.
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CBS News
CBS News is the news division of the American television and radio broadcaster CBS.
Cecilia R. Aragon
Cecilia Rodriguez Aragon is an American computer scientist, professor, author, and champion aerobatic pilot who is best known as the co-inventor (with Raimund Seidel) of the treap data structure, a type of binary search tree that orders nodes by adding a priority as well as a key to each node.
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Chaebol
A chaebol is a large industrial South Korean conglomerate run and controlled by an individual or family.
Child marriage
Child marriage is a marriage or domestic partnership, formal or informal, between a child and an adult, or between a child and another child.
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Christianity
Christianity is an Abrahamic monotheistic religion based on the life and teachings of Jesus Christ.
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Christians
A Christian is a person who follows or adheres to Christianity, a monotheistic Abrahamic religion based on the life and teachings of Jesus Christ.
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CNBC
CNBC is an American business news channel owned by NBCUniversal News Group, a unit of Comcast's NBCUniversal.
Coefficient of variation
In probability theory and statistics, the coefficient of variation (CV), also known as normalized root-mean-square deviation (NRMSD), percent RMS, and relative standard deviation (RSD), is a standardized measure of dispersion of a probability distribution or frequency distribution.
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Cognitive impairment
Cognitive impairment is an inclusive term to describe any characteristic that acts as a barrier to the cognition process or different areas of cognition.
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Cohort (statistics)
In statistics, epidemiology, marketing and demography, a cohort is a group of subjects who share a defining characteristic (typically subjects who experienced a common event in a selected time period, such as birth or graduation).
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Collins English Dictionary
The Collins English Dictionary is a printed and online dictionary of English.
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Communist Youth League of China
The Communist Youth League of China (CYLC), also known as the Young Communist League of China or simply the Communist Youth League (CYL), is a people's organization of the People's Republic of China for youth between the ages of 14 and 28, run by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP).
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Computer vision syndrome
Computer vision syndrome (CVS) is a condition resulting from focusing the eyes on a computer or other display device for protracted, uninterrupted periods of time and the eye's muscles being unable to recover from the constant tension required to maintain focus on a close object.
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Conspicuous consumption
In sociology and in economics, the term conspicuous consumption describes and explains the consumer practice of buying and using goods of a higher quality, price, or in greater quantity than practical.
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Consumerism
Consumerism is a social and economic order in which the aspirations of many individuals include the acquisition of goods and services beyond those necessary for survival or traditional displays of status.
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Cottagecore
Cottagecore (sometimes referred to as countrycore or farmcore) is an internet aesthetic idealising rural life.
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COVID-19
Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is a contagious disease caused by the coronavirus SARS-CoV-2.
COVID-19 lockdowns
During the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic, a number of non-pharmaceutical interventions, particularly lockdowns (encompassing stay-at-home orders, curfews, quarantines, cordons sanitaires and similar societal restrictions), were implemented in numerous countries and territories around the world.
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Criticism of marriage
Criticisms of marriage are arguments against the practical or moral value of the institution of matrimony or particular forms of matrimony.
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Cultured meat
Cultured meat, also known as cultivated meat among other names, is a form of cellular agriculture where meat is produced by culturing animal cells in vitro.
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Cusper
A cusper is a person born near the end of one generation and the beginning of another.
Cyberbullying
Cyberbullying (cyberharassment or online bullying) is a form of bullying or harassment using electronic means.
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DDT
Dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane, commonly known as DDT, is a colorless, tasteless, and almost odorless crystalline chemical compound, an organochloride.
Death of Mahsa Amini
On 16 September 2022, 22-year-old Iranian woman Mahsa Amini, also known as Jina Amini, died in a hospital in Tehran, Iran, under suspicious circumstances.
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Delayed gratification
Delayed gratification, or deferred gratification, is the resistance to the temptation of an immediate pleasure in the hope of obtaining a valuable and long-lasting reward in the long-term.
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Deloitte
Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu Limited, commonly referred to as Deloitte, is a multinational professional services network.
Demography
Demography is the statistical study of human populations: their size, composition (e.g., ethnic group, age), and how they change through the interplay of fertility (births), mortality (deaths), and migration.
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Depression (mood)
Depression is a mental state of low mood and aversion to activity.
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Dichlorobenzene
There are three distinct chemical compounds which are dichlorobenzenes.
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Dichlorodiphenyldichloroethylene
Dichlorodiphenyldichloroethylene (DDE) is a chemical compound formed by the loss of hydrogen chloride (dehydrohalogenation) from DDT, of which it is one of the more common breakdown products.
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Digital literacy
Digital literacy is an individual's ability to find, evaluate, and communicate information using typing or digital media platforms.
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Digital native
The term digital native describes a person who has grown up in the information age.
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Disney Channel
Disney Channel is an American pay television channel that serves as the flagship property of Disney Branded Television, a unit of the Disney Entertainment division of The Walt Disney Company.
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Doctor Who
Doctor Who is a British science fiction television series broadcast by the BBC since 1963.
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Dyscalculia
Dyscalculia is a disability resulting in difficulty learning or comprehending arithmetic, such as difficulty in understanding numbers, learning how to manipulate numbers, performing mathematical calculations, and learning facts in mathematics.
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Dyslexia
Dyslexia, previously known as word blindness, is a learning disability ('learning difficulty' in the UK) that affects either reading or writing.
East Asia
East Asia is a geographical and cultural region of Asia including the countries of China, Japan, Mongolia, North Korea, South Korea, and Taiwan.
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Eco-anxiety
Eco-anxiety (short for ecological anxiety and also known as eco-distress or climate-anxiety) is a challenging emotional response to climate change and other environmental issues.
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Education
Education is the transmission of knowledge, skills, and character traits and manifests in various forms.
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Election
An election is a formal group decision-making process by which a population chooses an individual or multiple individuals to hold public office.
Emoji
An emoji (plural emoji or emojis; 絵文字) is a pictogram, logogram, ideogram, or smiley embedded in text and used in electronic messages and web pages.
Emotional self-regulation
The self-regulation of emotion or emotion regulation is the ability to respond to the ongoing demands of experience with the range of emotions in a manner that is socially tolerable and sufficiently flexible to permit spontaneous reactions as well as the ability to delay spontaneous reactions as needed.
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Encyclopædia Britannica
The British Encyclopaedia is a general knowledge English-language encyclopaedia.
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Ernst & Young
Ernst & Young Global Limited, trade name EY, is a multinational professional services partnership.
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Escapism
Escapism is mental diversion from unpleasant aspects of daily life, typically through activities involving imagination or entertainment.
European Parliament
The European Parliament (EP) is one of the two legislative bodies of the European Union and one of its seven institutions.
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An extracurricular activity (ECA) or extra academic activity (EAA) or cultural activities is an activity, performed by students, that falls outside the realm of the normal curriculum of school, college or university education.
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Facebook is a social media and social networking service owned by American technology conglomerate Meta.
Fad
A fad, trend, or craze is any form of collective behavior that develops within a culture, a generation or social group in which a group of people enthusiastically follow an impulse for a short time period.
Fan fiction
Fan fiction or fanfiction, also known as fan fic, fanfic, fic or FF, is fiction written in an amateur capacity by fans as a form of fan labor, unauthorized by, but based on, an existing work of fiction.
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Fandom
A fandom is a subculture composed of fans characterized by a feeling of camaraderie with others who share a common interest.
FanFiction.Net
FanFiction.Net (often abbreviated as FF.net or FFN) is an automated fan fiction archive site.
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Fast fashion
Fast fashion is the business model of replicating recent catwalk trends and high-fashion designs, mass-producing them at a low cost, and bringing them to retail quickly while demand is at its highest.
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Fear of missing out
Fear of missing out (FOMO) is the feeling of apprehension that one is either not in the know about or missing out on information, events, experiences, or life decisions that could make one's life better.
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Financial Times
The Financial Times (FT) is a British daily newspaper printed in broadsheet and also published digitally that focuses on business and economic current affairs.
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Flynn effect
The Flynn effect is the substantial and long-sustained increase in both fluid and crystallized intelligence test scores that were measured in many parts of the world over the 20th century, named after researcher James Flynn (1934–2020).
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Folklore (Taylor Swift album)
Folklore is the eighth studio album by the American singer-songwriter Taylor Swift.
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Food allergy
A food allergy is an abnormal immune response to food.
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Forbes
Forbes is an American business magazine founded by B. C. Forbes in 1917 and owned by Hong Kong-based investment group Integrated Whale Media Investments since 2014.
Fortune (magazine)
Fortune (stylized in all caps) is an American global business magazine headquartered in New York City.
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Friends
Friends is an American television sitcom created by David Crane and Marta Kauffman, which aired on NBC from September 22, 1994, to May 6, 2004, lasting ten seasons.
Furry fandom
The furry fandom is a subculture interested in anthropomorphic animal characters.
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Gallup, Inc.
Gallup, Inc. is an American multinational analytics and advisory company based in Washington, D.C. Founded by George Gallup in 1935, the company became known for its public opinion polls conducted worldwide.
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Generalized anxiety disorder
Generalized anxiety disorder (GAD) is a mental and behavioral disorder, specifically an anxiety disorder characterized by excessive, uncontrollable and often irrational worry about events or activities.
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Generation
A generation is all of the people born and living at about the same time, regarded collectively.
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Generation Alpha
Generation Alpha (often shortened to Gen Alpha) is the demographic cohort succeeding Generation Z. Researchers and popular media use the early 2010s as starting birth years to the mid-2020s as the ending birth years.
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Generation Jones
Generation Jones is the generation or social cohort between the Baby Boom Generation and Generation X. Some people view it as a distinct generation, with the birth years 1954 to 1965 typically used.
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Generation X
Generation X (often shortened to Gen X) is the demographic cohort following the Baby Boomers and preceding Millennials. Generation Z and Generation X are 20th century.
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Generation Z in the United States
Generation Z (or Gen Z for short), colloquially known as Zoomers, is the demographic cohort succeeding Millennials and preceding Generation Alpha. Generation Z and Generation Z in the United States are 1990s neologisms.
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Geometry
Geometry is a branch of mathematics concerned with properties of space such as the distance, shape, size, and relative position of figures.
Google Trends
Google Trends is a website by Google that analyzes the popularity of top search queries in Google Search across various regions and languages.
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Greta Thunberg
Greta Tintin Eleonora Ernman Thunberg (born 3 January 2003) is a Swedish environmental activist known for challenging world leaders to take immediate action to mitigate the effects of human-caused climate change.
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Group polarization
In social psychology, group polarization refers to the tendency for a group to make decisions that are more extreme than the initial inclination of its members.
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Guidance Patrol
The Guidance Patrol (translit) or morality police is an Islamic religious police force and vice squad in the Law Enforcement Command of the Islamic Republic of Iran.
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Harry Potter
Harry Potter is a series of seven fantasy novels written by British author J. K. Rowling.
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Helicopter parent
A helicopter parent (also called a cosseting parent or simply a cosseter) is a term for a parent who is overattentive and overly fearful of a child's experiences and problems, particularly outside the home and at educational institutions. Generation Z and helicopter parent are 1990s neologisms.
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Higher education bubble in the United States
The higher education bubble in the United States is the possibility that excessive investment in higher education could have negative repercussions in the broader economy.
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HIV
The human immunodeficiency viruses (HIV) are two species of Lentivirus (a subgroup of retrovirus) that infect humans.
Hygiene hypothesis
In medicine, the hygiene hypothesis states that early childhood exposure to particular microorganisms (such as the gut flora and helminth parasites) protects against allergies by strengthening the immune system.
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Hypothalamic–pituitary–gonadal axis
The hypothalamic–pituitary–gonadal axis (HPG axis, also known as the hypothalamic–pituitary–ovarian/testicular axis) refers to the hypothalamus, pituitary gland, and gonadal glands as if these individual endocrine glands were a single entity.
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IGen (book)
iGen is a 2017 nonfiction book by Jean Twenge that studies the lifestyles, habits and values of Americans born 1995–2012, the first generation to reach adolescence after smartphones became widespread.
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Indonesia
Indonesia, officially the Republic of Indonesia, is a country in Southeast Asia and Oceania between the Indian and Pacific oceans.
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Insomnia
Insomnia, also known as sleeplessness, is a sleep disorder where people have trouble sleeping.
Instagram is a photo and video sharing social networking service owned by Meta Platforms.
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Institute of International Education
The Institute of International Education (IIE) is an American 501(c) non-profit organization that focuses on international student exchange and aid, foreign affairs, and international peace and security.
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Intellectual disability
Intellectual disability (ID), also known as general learning disability (in the United Kingdom) and formerly mental retardation (in the United States),Rosa's Law, Pub.
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International Computer and Information Literacy Study
The International Computer and Information Literacy Study (ICILS) assesses information and communications technology (I.C.T.) knowledge of students and teachers worldwide.
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Internet
The Internet (or internet) is the global system of interconnected computer networks that uses the Internet protocol suite (TCP/IP) to communicate between networks and devices.
Internet celebrity
An internet celebrity (also referred to as a social media influencer, social media personality, internet personality, or influencer) is an individual who has acquired or developed their fame and notability on the Internet.
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Internet forum
An Internet forum, or message board, is an online discussion site where people can hold conversations in the form of posted messages.
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Internet meme
An Internet meme, or simply meme, is a cultural item (such as an idea, behaviour, or style) that is spread via the Internet, often through social media platforms. Generation Z and Internet meme are 1990s neologisms.
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Internet pornography
Internet pornography is any pornography that is accessible over the Internet; primarily via websites, FTP connections, peer-to-peer file sharing, or Usenet newsgroups.
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Internet protocol suite
The Internet protocol suite, commonly known as TCP/IP, is a framework for organizing the set of communication protocols used in the Internet and similar computer networks according to functional criteria.
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Iodine deficiency
Iodine deficiency is a lack of the trace element iodine, an essential nutrient in the diet.
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Ipsos
Ipsos Group S.A. (an acronym of Institut Public de Sondage d'Opinion Secteur) is a multinational market research and consulting firm with headquarters in Paris, France.
Irony
Irony, in its broadest sense, is the juxtaposition of what on the surface appears to be the case and what is actually the case or to be expected.
James Flynn (academic)
James Robert Flynn (28 April 193411 December 2020) was an American-born New Zealand moral philosopher and intelligence researcher.
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Jean Twenge
Jean Marie Twenge (born August 24, 1971) is an American psychologist researching generational differences, including work values, life goals, and social attitudes.
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Jean-Yves Camus
Jean-Yves Camus (born 1958) is a French political scientist who specializes in nationalist movements in Europe.
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Judith Treas
Judith K. Treas (born 1947) is an American sociologist.
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K-pop
K-pop, short for Korean popular music, is a form of popular music originating in South Korea as part of South Korean culture.
Left-wing politics
Left-wing politics describes the range of political ideologies that support and seek to achieve social equality and egalitarianism, often in opposition to social hierarchy as a whole or certain social hierarchies.
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Legalization of non-medical cannabis in the United States
In the United States, the non-medical use of cannabis is legalized in 24 states (plus Guam, the Northern Mariana Islands, the U.S. Virgin Islands, and the District of Columbia) and decriminalized in 7 states, as of November 2023.
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Lempel–Ziv–Welch
Lempel–Ziv–Welch (LZW) is a universal lossless data compression algorithm created by Abraham Lempel, Jacob Ziv, and Terry Welch.
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Lexico
Lexico was a dictionary website that provided a collection of English and Spanish dictionaries produced by Oxford University Press (OUP), the publishing house of the University of Oxford.
LGBT
is an initialism that stands for "lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender". Generation Z and LGBT are 1990s neologisms.
Library of Congress
The Library of Congress (LOC) is a research library in Washington, D.C. that serves as the library and research service of the U.S. Congress and the de facto national library of the United States.
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List of Generation Z slang
The following is a list of slang that is used or popularized by Generation Z (Gen Z), generally those born between the late 1990s and early 2010s in the Western world.
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Little emperor syndrome
The little emperor syndrome (or little emperor effect) is an aspect or view of Mainland China's one-child policy where children of the modern upper class and wealthier Chinese families gain seemingly excessive amounts of attention from their parents and grandparents.
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Mahsa Amini protests
Civil unrest and protests against the government of the Islamic Republic of Iran associated with the death in police custody of Mahsa Amini (مهسا امینی) began on 16 September 2022 and carried on into 2023, but were said to have "dwindled" or "died down" by spring of 2023.
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Major depressive disorder
Major depressive disorder (MDD), also known as clinical depression, is a mental disorder characterized by at least two weeks of pervasive low mood, low self-esteem, and loss of interest or pleasure in normally enjoyable activities.
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Mass surveillance
Mass surveillance is the intricate surveillance of an entire or a substantial fraction of a population in order to monitor that group of citizens.
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Mayo Clinic
Mayo Clinic is a nonprofit American academic medical center focused on integrated health care, education, and research.
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Māori people
Māori are the indigenous Polynesian people of mainland New Zealand (Aotearoa).
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MC Lars
Andrew Robert Nielsen (born October 6, 1982), known professionally as MC Lars, is an American record producer, rapper, cartoonist, podcaster and educator.
McCrindle
McCrindle is a surname.
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McKinsey & Company
McKinsey & Company (informally McKinsey or McK) is an American multinational strategy and management consulting firm that offers professional services to corporations, governments, and other organizations.
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Meat alternative
A meat alternative or meat substitute (also called plant-based meat, mock meat, or fake meat sometimes pejoratively), is a food product made from vegetarian or vegan ingredients, eaten as a replacement for meat.
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Medical diagnosis
Medical diagnosis (abbreviated Dx, Dx, or Ds) is the process of determining which disease or condition explains a person's symptoms and signs.
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Men Going Their Own Way
Men Going Their Own Way (MGTOW) is an anti-feminist, misogynistic, mostly online community advocating for men to separate themselves from women and society, which they believe has been corrupted by feminism.
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Men's rights movement
The men's rights movement (MRM) is a branch of the men's movement.
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Menarche
Menarche is the first menstrual cycle, or first menstrual bleeding, in female humans.
Mental disorder
A mental disorder, also referred to as a mental illness, a mental health condition, or a psychiatric disability, is a behavioral or mental pattern that causes significant distress or impairment of personal functioning.
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Mental health
Mental health encompasses emotional, psychological, and social well-being, influencing cognition, perception, and behavior.
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Merriam-Webster
Merriam-Webster, Incorporated is an American company that publishes reference books and is mostly known for its dictionaries.
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Meta-analysis is the statistical combination of the results of multiple studies addressing a similar research question.
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Microsoft
Microsoft Corporation is an American multinational corporation and technology company headquartered in Redmond, Washington.
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Millennials
Millennials, also known as Generation Y or Gen Y, are the demographic cohort following Generation X and preceding Generation Z. Researchers and popular media use the early 1980s as starting birth years and the mid-1990s to early 2000s as ending birth years, with the generation typically being defined as people born from 1981 to 1996. Generation Z and Millennials are 20th century.
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Mobile technology
Mobile technology is the technology used for cellular communication.
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Mood disorder
A mood disorder, also known as an affective disorder, is any of a group of conditions of mental and behavioral disorder where a disturbance in the person's mood is the main underlying feature.
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My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic fandom
My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic is an animated children's television series produced by Hasbro that ran from 2010 to 2019 as part of the My Little Pony toy franchise.
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Myopia
Myopia, also known as near-sightedness and short-sightedness, is an eye disease where light from distant objects focuses in front of, instead of on, the retina.
National Academy for Gifted and Talented Youth
The National Academy for Gifted and Talented Youth (NAGTY) was based at the University of Warwick and was founded in 2002 by a government (DfES) initiative for high-achieving secondary students in England.
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National Health Service
The National Health Service (NHS) is the umbrella term for the publicly funded healthcare systems of the United Kingdom, comprising the NHS in England, NHS Scotland and NHS Wales.
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National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases
The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) is one of the 27 institutes and centers that make up the National Institutes of Health (NIH), an agency of the United States Department of Health and Human Services (HHS).
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National Literacy Trust
The National Literacy Trust is an independent charity (registered no. 1116260 in England and Wales and registered no. SCO42944 in Scotland) based in London, England, that promotes literacy.
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NBC News
NBC News is the news division of the American broadcast television network NBC.
Neil Howe
Neil Howe (born October 21, 1951) is an American author and consultant.
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New Zealand
New Zealand (Aotearoa) is an island country in the southwestern Pacific Ocean.
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News.com.au
News.com.au (stylised in all lowercase) is an Australian website owned by News Corp Australia.
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Nickelodeon
Nickelodeon (occasionally shortened to Nick) is an American pay television channel owned by Paramount Global through Paramount Media Networks' subdivision, Nickelodeon Group.
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Noreena Hertz
Noreena Hertz (born 24 September 1967) is an English academic, economist and bestselling author, who sits on the boards of Mattel, Warner Music Group and Workhuman.
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Nostalgia
Nostalgia is a sentimentality for the past, typically for a period or place with happy personal associations.
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NPR
National Public Radio (NPR, stylized as npr) is an American public broadcasting organization headquartered in Washington, D.C., with its NPR West headquarters in Culver City, California.
OECD
The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD; Organisation de coopération et de développement économiques, OCDE) is an intergovernmental organisation with 38 member countries, founded in 1961 to stimulate economic progress and world trade.
Office for National Statistics
The Office for National Statistics (ONS; Swyddfa Ystadegau Gwladol) is the executive office of the UK Statistics Authority, a non-ministerial department which reports directly to the UK Parliament.
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Ogilvy (agency)
Ogilvy is a New York City-based British advertising, marketing, and public relations agency.
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OnePoll
OnePoll is an international market research agency specialising in PR surveys, consumer insights and opinion polling.
Online chat
Online chat is any kind of communication over the Internet that offers a real-time transmission of text messages from sender to receiver.
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Osteoarthritis
Osteoarthritis (OA) is a type of degenerative joint disease that results from breakdown of joint cartilage and underlying bone.
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PBS
The Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) is an American public broadcaster and non-commercial, free-to-air television network based in Crystal City, Virginia.
Peer pressure
Peer pressure is a direct or indirect influence on peers, i.e., members of social groups with similar interests, experiences, or social statuses.
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PensionBee
PensionBee is a British online personal pension scheme provider.
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Pew Research Center
The Pew Research Center (also simply known as Pew) is a nonpartisan American think tank based in Washington, D.C. It provides information on social issues, public opinion, and demographic trends shaping the United States and the world.
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Pinterest is an American social media service for publishing and discovery of information in the form of pinboards.
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Plant-based diet
A plant-based diet is a diet consisting mostly or entirely of plant-based foods.
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Populus Ltd
Populus is a market research company in the United Kingdom formed in 2003.
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Pornography
Pornography (colloquially known as porn or porno) has been defined as sexual subject material such as a picture, video, text, or audio that is intended for sexual arousal.
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Post-90s
The Post-90 generation (gau2 sap6 hau6 or gau2 ling4 hau6) is a generation in China, especially in urban areas, generally considered to be born between 1990 and 1999 though sometimes considered to start with those born in the fall of 1989 (as they would graduate in the same class as those born in 1990).
Prevalence
In epidemiology, prevalence is the proportion of a particular population found to be affected by a medical condition (typically a disease or a risk factor such as smoking or seatbelt use) at a specific time.
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Princelings
The Princelings, also translated as the Party's Crown Princes, are the descendants of prominent and influential senior communist officials in the People's Republic of China.
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Proclamation 10043
Proclamation 10043 is a presidential proclamation signed by Donald Trump, the 45th US president, on May 29, 2020, in order to prohibit students in the People's Republic of China associated with the People's Liberation Army from obtaining F visas or J visas.
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Programme for International Student Assessment
The Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) is a worldwide study by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) in member and non-member nations intended to evaluate educational systems by measuring 15-year-old school pupils' scholastic performance on mathematics, science, and reading.
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Progress in International Reading Literacy Study
The IEA's Progress in International Reading Literacy Study (PIRLS) is an international study of reading (comprehension) achievement in 9-10 year olds.
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Psychoactive drug
A psychoactive drug, mind-altering drug, or consciousness-altering drug is a chemical substance that changes brain function and results in alterations in perception, mood, consciousness, cognition, or behavior.
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Puberty
Puberty is the process of physical changes through which a child's body matures into an adult body capable of sexual reproduction.
PwC
PricewaterhouseCoopers International Limited is a multinational professional services brand of firms, operating as partnerships under the PwC brand.
Radio broadcasting
Radio broadcasting is the broadcasting of audio (sound), sometimes with related metadata, by radio waves to radio receivers belonging to a public audience.
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Reddit is an American social news aggregation, content rating, and forum social network.
Revealed preference
Revealed preference theory, pioneered by economist Paul Anthony Samuelson in 1938, is a method of analyzing choices made by individuals, mostly used for comparing the influence of policies on consumer behavior.
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Russo-Ukrainian War
The ongoing Russo-Ukrainian War began in February 2014.
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Savanta
Savanta is a market research consultancy based in London, England.
School Strike for Climate
School Strike for Climate (Skolstrejk för klimatet), also known variously as Fridays for Future (FFF), Youth for Climate, Climate Strike or Youth Strike for Climate, is an international movement of school students who skip Friday classes to participate in demonstrations to demand action from political leaders to prevent climate change and for the fossil fuel industry to transition to renewable energy.
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Scratch (programming language)
Scratch is a high-level, block-based visual programming language and website aimed primarily at children as an educational tool, with a target audience of ages 8 to 16.
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Screen time
Screen time is the amount of time spent using a device with a screen such as a smartphone, computer, television, video game console, or a tablet.
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Self-consciousness
Self-consciousness is a heightened sense of awareness of oneself.
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Self-harm
Self-harm is intentional conduct that is considered harmful to oneself.
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September 11 attacks
The September 11 attacks, commonly known as 9/11, were four coordinated Islamist terrorist suicide attacks carried out by al-Qaeda against the United States in 2001.
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Sex education
Sex education, also known as sexual education, sexuality education or sex ed, is the instruction of issues relating to human sexuality, including human sexual anatomy, sexual activity, sexual reproduction, safe sex, and birth control, sexual health, reproductive health, emotional relations and responsibilities, age of consent, and reproductive rights.
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Sexting
Sexting is sending, receiving, or forwarding sexually explicit messages, photographs, or videos, primarily between mobile phones.
Sexual violence
Sexual violence is any harmful or unwanted sexual act—or attempt to obtain a sexual act through violence or coercion—or an act directed against a person's sexuality without their consent, by any individual regardless of their relationship to the victim.
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Shipping (fandom)
Shipping (derived from the word relationship) is the term for the desire by followers of a fandom for two or more people, either real-life people or fictional characters (in film, literature, television series, etc.), to be in a romantic relationship.
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Sin tax
A sin tax (also known as a sumptuary tax, or vice tax) is an excise tax specifically levied on certain goods deemed harmful to society and individuals, such as alcohol, tobacco, drugs, candies, soft drinks, fast foods, coffee, sugar, gambling, and pornography.
Singaporeans
Singaporeans are the citizens and nationals of the sovereign island city-state of Singapore.
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Sleep deprivation
Sleep deprivation, also known as sleep insufficiency or sleeplessness, is the condition of not having adequate duration and/or quality of sleep to support decent alertness, performance, and health.
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Sleep hygiene
Sleep hygiene is a behavioral and environmental practice developed in the late 1970s as a method to help people with mild to moderate insomnia.
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Slow living
Slow living is a lifestyle which encourages a slower approach to aspects of everyday life, involving completing tasks at a leisurely pace.
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Smartphone
A smartphone, often simply called a phone, is a mobile device that combines the functionality of a traditional mobile phone with advanced computing capabilities.
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SMS
Short Message Service, commonly abbreviated as SMS, is a text messaging service component of most telephone, Internet and mobile device systems.
Snapchat
Snapchat is an American multimedia instant messaging app and service developed by Snap Inc., originally Snapchat Inc.
Societal impacts of cars
Since the start of the twentieth century, the role of cars has become highly important, though controversial.
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Spiritual but not religious
"Spiritual but not religious" (SBNR), also known as "spiritual but not affiliated" (SBNA), or less commonly "more spiritual than religious" is a popular phrase and initialism used to self-identify a life stance of spirituality that does not regard organized religion as the sole or most valuable means of furthering spiritual growth.
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Spotify
Spotify is a Swedish audio streaming and media service provider founded on 23 April 2006 by Daniel Ek and Martin Lorentzon.
Stanford marshmallow experiment
The Stanford marshmallow experiment was a study on delayed gratification in 1970 led by psychologist Walter Mischel, a professor at Stanford University.
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Star Trek
Star Trek is an American science fiction media franchise created by Gene Roddenberry, which began with the eponymous 1960s television series and became a worldwide pop-culture phenomenon.
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Star Wars
Star Wars is an American epic space opera media franchise created by George Lucas, which began with the eponymous 1977 film and quickly became a worldwide pop culture phenomenon.
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Statistics Canada
Statistics Canada (StatCan; Statistique Canada), formed in 1971, is the agency of the Government of Canada commissioned with producing statistics to help better understand Canada, its population, resources, economy, society, and culture.
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Status symbol
A status symbol is a visible, external symbol of one's social position, an indicator of economic or social status.
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Stranger Things
Stranger Things is an American horror television series created by the Duffer Brothers for Netflix.
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Strauss–Howe generational theory
The Strauss–Howe generational theory, devised by William Strauss and Neil Howe, describes a theorized recurring generation cycle in American history and Western history.
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Strawberry generation
Strawberry generation is a Chinese-language neologism used in Taiwan for Taiwanese people born from 1990s onwards who "bruise easily" like strawberries – meaning they cannot withstand social pressure or work hard like their parents' generation; the term refers to people who are perceived as insubordinate, spoiled, selfish, arrogant, and sluggish in work.
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Stress (biology)
Stress, whether physiological, biological or psychological, is an organism's response to a stressor such as an environmental condition.
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Study of Mathematically Precocious Youth
The Study of Mathematically Precocious Youth (SMPY) is a prospective longitudinal survey study of persons (mostly in the United States) identified by scores of 700 or higher on a section of the SAT Reasoning Test before age 13.
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Suicidal ideation
Suicidal ideation, or suicidal thoughts, is the thought process of having ideas, or ruminations about the possibility of completing suicide.
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Supernanny
Supernanny is a British reality television programme about parents struggling with their children's behaviour, mealtime, potty training, etc.
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Talent Identification Program
The Duke University Talent Identification Program (commonly referred to as "Duke TIP") was a gifted education program based at Duke University.
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Tang ping
Tang ping is a Chinese slang neologism that describes a personal rejection of societal pressures to overwork and over-achieve, such as in the 996 working hour system, which is often regarded as a rat race with ever diminishing returns.
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Tanner scale
The Tanner scale (also known as the Tanner stages or sexual maturity rating (SMR)) is a scale of physical development as children transition into adolescence and then adulthood.
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Taylor Swift
Taylor Alison Swift (born December 13, 1989) is an American singer-songwriter.
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Teenage pregnancy
Teenage pregnancy, also known as adolescent pregnancy, is pregnancy in a female adolescent under the age of 20.
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The Economist
The Economist is a British weekly newspaper published in printed magazine format and digitally.
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The Guardian
The Guardian is a British daily newspaper.
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The Lancet
The Lancet is a weekly peer-reviewed general medical journal and one of the oldest of its kind.
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The New York Times
The New York Times (NYT) is an American daily newspaper based in New York City.
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The Times
The Times is a British daily national newspaper based in London.
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The Twilight Saga (film series)
The Twilight Saga is a series of romance fantasy films based on the book series Twilight by Stephenie Meyer.
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The Vision Council
The Vision Council (also known as the Vision Council of America or VCA) is a nonprofit trade association for manufacturers and suppliers of the optical industry in the United States.
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The Wall Street Journal
The Wall Street Journal (WSJ), also referred to simply as the Journal, is an American newspaper based in New York City, with a focus on business and finance.
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The Washington Post
The Washington Post, locally known as "the Post" and, informally, WaPo or WP, is an American daily newspaper published in Washington, D.C., the national capital.
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Thelarche
Thelarche, also known as breast budding, is the onset of secondary breast development, often representing the beginning of pubertal development.
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Thumb tribe
The thumb tribe (or sometimes thumb generation) is the younger generation with members who are more adept at texting using their thumbs than talking on the phone.
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TikTok
TikTok, whose mainland Chinese counterpart is Douyin, is a short-form video hosting service owned by Chinese internet company ByteDance.
Time (magazine)
Time (stylized in all caps as TIME) is an American news magazine based in New York City.
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Time displacement
Time displacement in sociology refers to the idea that new forms of activities may replace older ones.
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Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study
The International Association for the Evaluation of Educational Achievement (IEA)'s Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS) is a series of international assessments of the mathematics and science knowledge of students around the world.
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Truancy
Truancy is any intentional, unjustified, unauthorized, or illegal absence from compulsory education.
Twelfth grade
Twelfth grade (also known as 12th grade, grade 12, senior year, or class 12) is the twelfth year of formal or compulsory education.
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X, commonly referred to by its former name Twitter, is a social networking service.
UNICEF
UNICEF, originally the United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund, officially United Nations Children's Fund since 1953, is an agency of the United Nations responsible for providing humanitarian and developmental aid to children worldwide.
United Kingdom
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom (UK) or Britain, is a country in Northwestern Europe, off the coast of the continental mainland.
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United Press International
United Press International (UPI) is an American international news agency whose newswires, photo, news film, and audio services provided news material to thousands of newspapers, magazines, radio and television stations for most of the 20th century until its eventual decline beginning in the early 1980s.
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United States
The United States of America (USA or U.S.A.), commonly known as the United States (US or U.S.) or America, is a country primarily located in North America.
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United States census
The United States census (plural censuses or census) is a census that is legally mandated by the Constitution of the United States.
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United States Census Bureau
The United States Census Bureau (USCB), officially the Bureau of the Census, is a principal agency of the U.S. Federal Statistical System, responsible for producing data about the American people and economy.
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United States Department of Homeland Security
The United States Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is the U.S. federal executive department responsible for public security, roughly comparable to the interior or home ministries of other countries.
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University College London
University College London (branded as UCL) is a public research university in London, England.
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USA Today
USA Today (often stylized in all caps) is an American daily middle-market newspaper and news broadcasting company.
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Value-action gap
The value-action gap (also called the attitude-behavior gap, intention-behavior gap, intention-action gap, belier -action gap, KAP-gap (knowledge-attitudes-practice gap) or belief-behavior gap) is the discrepancy between the stated values of an individual or organisation and their actions.
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Varkey Foundation
The Varkey Foundation, initially the Varkey GEMS Foundation, is the nonprofit arm of GEMS Education, an education management company.
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Veganism
Veganism is the practice of abstaining from the use of animal products—particularly in diet—and an associated philosophy that rejects the commodity status of animals.
Vice (magazine)
Vice (stylized in all caps) is a Canadian-American magazine focused on lifestyle, arts, culture, and news/politics.
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Video game
A video game or computer game is an electronic game that involves interaction with a user interface or input device (such as a joystick, controller, keyboard, or motion sensing device) to generate visual feedback from a display device, most commonly shown in a video format on a television set, computer monitor, flat-panel display or touchscreen on handheld devices, or a virtual reality headset.
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Vine (service)
Vine was an American short-form video hosting service where users could share up to 6-second-long looping video clips.
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Vintage clothing
Vintage clothing is a generic term for garments originating from a previous era, as recent as the 1990s.
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Virtue signalling
Virtue signalling is a pejorative term for the act of showing oneself to have good character, such as by expressing opinions that are considered morally acceptable, often on social media.
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Vocabulary
A vocabulary (also known as a lexicon) is a set of words, typically the set in a language or the set known to an individual.
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Voluntary childlessness
Voluntary childlessness or childfreeness describes the active choice not to have children.
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Walt Disney Pictures
Walt Disney Pictures is an American film production company and subsidiary of Walt Disney Studios, a division of Disney Entertainment, which is owned by The Walt Disney Company.
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Web 2.0
Web 2.0 (also known as participative (or participatory) web and social web) refers to websites that emphasize user-generated content, ease of use, participatory culture, and interoperability (i.e., compatibility with other products, systems, and devices) for end users.
William H. Frey
William Henry Frey (born 1947) is a noted American demographer and author.
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William Strauss
William Strauss (December 5, 1947 – December 18, 2007) was an American author, playwright, theater director, and lecturer.
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Wojak
Wojak (from Polish, loosely 'soldier' or 'fighter'), also known as Feels Guy, is an Internet meme that is, in its original form, a simple, black-outlined cartoon drawing of a bald man with a wistful expression.
Youth subculture
Youth subculture is a youth-based subculture with distinct styles, behaviors, and interests.
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Youth unemployment
Youth unemployment is a special case of unemployment; youth, here, meaning those between the ages of 15 and 24.
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YouTube
YouTube is an American online video sharing platform owned by Google.
Zillennials
Zillennials (also known as Zennials) is the demographic cohort on the cusp of the Millennial and Generation Z cohorts. Generation Z and Zillennials are 20th century.
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2019 European Parliament election
The 2019 European Parliament election was held in the European Union (EU) between 23 and 26 May 2019.
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2021–2023 inflation surge
Following the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, a worldwide surge in inflation began in mid-2021 and lasted until mid-2022.
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2022 COVID-19 protests in China
A series of protests against COVID-19 lockdowns began in mainland China in November 2022.
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2024 European Parliament election
The 2024 European Parliament election was held in the European Union (EU) between 6 and 9 June 2024.
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4chan
4chan is an anonymous English-language imageboard website.
9X Generation
Thế hệ 9X (literally "9X Generation", often referred to simply as 9X) is a Vietnamese term for people born during the 1990s.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generation_Z
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