Millennials

As Generation Y ( Gen Y short ) is that population cohort is called in sociology, whose members included the year 2000 around the teenagers. Depending on the source of this generation (in German about the thousands of years ) referred to as Millennials. It is valid as a successor generation of baby boomers and Generation X. The name is due to the fact that on X - follows > Y. The next generation is the generation Z, which begins about the year of birth 1998.

Sociological characterization

Generation Y is considered to be relatively well educated, often with a technical college or university degree. It is characterized by a technology- savvy lifestyle, since it is the first generation that has largely grown up in an environment of Internet and mobile communications. She prefers to work in virtual teams than in deep hierarchies. Instead of status and prestige back the joy of work and the search for meaning in the center. More freedom, the opportunity for self -realization, as well as more time for family and leisure are central demands of Generation Y: You do not want to submit to the profession all but calls for a balance between work and leisure. Not until after the work begins for Generation Y of fun, but she wants to be happy while working - through a job that provides them meaning. It embodies a shift in values ​​, which is already taking place at the societal level, the young employees now wear but also in the professional world. The Berlin youth researcher Klaus Hurrelmann draws attention to the multi-option society and Grenzlosigkeit in which Generation Y has grown up. The Millennials are optimistic and self-confident and have little confidence in the government, which is why they get involved through passive resistance actively in political life. An example of this is the Occupy Wall Street movement, resulting in the modern organization of Generation Y loomed. As a " counterpoint " or losers this generation call Susanne Finsterer and Edmund Cheerful in the book of the same generation chips - mainly in the so-called underclass - too much media consumed, unilaterally malnourished and were largely excluded from social participation.

Movies

• Oh Boy, Germany, 2012