Are Generational Labels Meaningless?

A growing chorus of voices is pushing to abandon the Baby Boomer, Gen X, and Millennial labels

In popular culture, generational labels, such as Millennial, Baby Boomer, Generation Z, and that other one, have become ubiquitous. But there is a growing movement to do away with these categories out of concerns that they exacerbate generational tensions and misinform the public. In the Washington Post, Sociologist Philip Cohen wrote, “Worse than irrel…