Generation Jones is a term coined by Jonathan Pontell to describe the cohort of people born between 1954 and 1965. The term is used primarily in English-speaking countries.
Pontell defined Generation Jones as referring to the second half of the post–World War II baby boom The term also includes first-wave Generation X. Many have children that are in Generation Y and Generation Z.
The name "Generation Jones" has several connotations, including a large anonymous generation, a "keeping up with the Joneses" competitiveness and the slang word "jones" or "jonesing", meaning a yearning or craving. It is said that Jonesers were given huge expectations as children in the 1960s, and then confronted with a different reality as they came of age in the 1970s and 1980s, leaving them with a certain unrequited, "jonesing" quality. The name additionally draws influence from the song "Mr. Jones" by Counting Crows.
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Famous quotes containing the words generation and/or jones:
“A generation which has passed through the shop has absorbed standards and ambitions which are not of those of spaciousness, and cannot get away from them. Everything with them is done as though for sale, and they naturally have in view the greatest possible benefit, profit and that end of the stuff that will make the best show.”
—Alexander Herzen (1812–1870)
“The only road to the highest stations in this country is that of the law.”
—William Jones (1746–1794)