Generation Jones

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Etymology

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Coined by author Jonathan Pontell, from jonesing (intense craving).[1]

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Generation Jones

  1. The generation of people born in the late 1950s and early 1960s; they are the younger subset of the baby boomers but are sometimes conceptualized as being sandwiched between the older subset of baby boomers and Gen-Xers.
    Generation Jones listened to a lot of classic rock when young.
    • 2011, Tracy D. Connors, The Volunteer Management Handbook[2], John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN:
      The later cohort of Generation Jones really seems to combine some Baby Boom qualities with those of later generational cohorts.

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See also

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Timeline of generations
Generation BetaGeneration AlphazoomerGeneration ZmillennialGeneration YMTV generationGeneration XGeneration Jonesbaby boomerSilent GenerationG.I. Generationgreatest generation

References

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  1. ^ Jonathan Pontell (2009 January 27) “Stuck in the middle”, in USA Today[1], archived from the original on 2013-11-09:But above all, the name borrows from the slang term "jonesin' " that we as teens popularized to broadly convey any intense craving.

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