Skip to main content
Disciplines
Automotive Business IT + Informatics Construction + Real Estate Electrical Engineering + Electronics Energy + Sustainability Insurance + Risk Finance + Banking Management + Leadership Marketing + Sales Mechanical Engineering + Materials
Events
DE
EN
Books
Journals
Topic Page
Marketing
Start single access now
Access for companies
EXTENDED SEARCH
Log in
Top
Society
Published in: Society 6/2017

16-10-2017 | Symposium: Revisiting Maslow: Human Needs in the 21st Century

The Shaky Foundations of Millennials’ Basic Human Needs

III. Young Perspectives

Author: Julia Tréhu

Published in: Society | Issue 6/2017

Log in

Activate our intelligent search to find suitable subject content or patents.

search-config
loading …

Excerpt

A failsafe think-piece begins by caricaturizing the unique pathologies of the Millennial generation. Sharing birthdates within a 15-year period and being blessed with an agility vis-à-vis technology sorely lacking in their dinosaur baby-boomer parents apparently permits broad generalizations about an enormous and enormously diverse generation.1 Despite the laziness of such assessments of Millennials, it is nevertheless possible to tease out some interpretations of human needs as shaped by the experiences of contemporary 18 to 35-year-olds. …
previous article Be Yourself! How Am I Not myself?
next article Longing to Belong: Needing to be Needed in a World in Need

Dont have a licence yet? Then find out more about our products and how to get one now:

Springer Professional "Wirtschaft+Technik"

Online-Abonnement

Mit Springer Professional "Wirtschaft+Technik" erhalten Sie Zugriff auf:

  • über 102.000 Bücher
  • über 537 Zeitschriften

aus folgenden Fachgebieten:

  • Automobil + Motoren
  • Bauwesen + Immobilien
  • Business IT + Informatik
  • Elektrotechnik + Elektronik
  • Energie + Nachhaltigkeit
  • Finance + Banking
  • Management + Führung
  • Marketing + Vertrieb
  • Maschinenbau + Werkstoffe
  • Versicherung + Risiko

Jetzt Wissensvorsprung sichern!

inform now

Springer Professional "Wirtschaft"

Online-Abonnement

Mit Springer Professional "Wirtschaft" erhalten Sie Zugriff auf:

  • über 67.000 Bücher
  • über 340 Zeitschriften

aus folgenden Fachgebieten:

  • Bauwesen + Immobilien
  • Business IT + Informatik
  • Finance + Banking
  • Management + Führung
  • Marketing + Vertrieb
  • Versicherung + Risiko




Jetzt Wissensvorsprung sichern!

inform now
Footnotes
1
William H. Frey, “Diversity defines the millennial generation,” Brookings, 28 June 2016.
 
2
Gemma Tetlow, “Wage stagnation drives up number of working poor,” Financial Times, 7 December 2016.
 
3
Anne Case and Angus Deaton, “Rising morbidity and mortality in midlife among white non-Hispanic Americans in the twenty-first century,” PNAS 112, no. 49 (2015), 15,078–15,083.
 
4
“Five charts show why millennials are worse off than their parents,” The Financial Times, 29 August 2017.
 
5
Joe Myers, “Millennials will be the first generation to earn less than their parents,” World Economic Forum, 19 July 2016.
 
6
Jia Tolentino, “The Gig Economy celebrates working yourself to death,” The New Yorker, 22 March, 2017.
 
7
D’Vera Cohn et al., “Barely Half of U.S. Adults are Married – A Record Low,” Pew Research Center, 14 December, 2011.
 
8
Larry Elliott, “Economics: Whatever happened to Keynes’ 15-h working week,” The Guardian, 1 September 2008.
 
9
Anna Iovine, “People are outraged over this Fiverr subway advertisement,” AOL Finance, 10 March 2017. The ad in question reads: “You eat a coffee for lunch. You follow through on your follow through. Sleep deprivation is your drug of choice. You might be a doer.”
 
10
Lucy Clarke-Billings, “What do Tinder’s 37 new gender identity options mean?” Newsweek, 18 November 2016.
 
11
Ginia Bellafonte, “The False Feminism of ‘Fearless Girl,’” The New York Times, 16 March 2017.
 
12
Molly Young, “How Amanda Chantal Bacon Perfected the Celebrity Wellness Business,” The New York Times Magazine, 25 May 2017.
 
Metadata
Title
The Shaky Foundations of Millennials’ Basic Human Needs
III. Young Perspectives
Author
Julia Tréhu
Publication date
16-10-2017
Publisher
Springer US
Published in
Society / Issue 6/2017
Print ISSN: 0147-2011
Electronic ISSN: 1936-4725
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s12115-017-0184-z

Other articles of this Issue 6/2017

Society 6/2017 Go to the issue

Society’s Books of Note

Society’s Books of Note

Symposium: Revisiting Maslow: Human Needs in the 21st Century

Climbing a Pyramid or Caught in a Cobweb?

Book Review

Élisabeth Roudinesco. Freud in His Time and Ours.

Book Review

Michael Shermer, Skeptic: Viewing the World with a Skeptical Eye

Symposium: Revisiting Maslow: Human Needs in the 21st Century

Longing to Belong: Needing to be Needed in a World in Need

Profile

On How and Why Intellectuals Deceive Themselves: A Paul Hollander Retrospective