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Wiktionary英語版
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Generation Alpha
出典:『Wiktionary』 (2026/05/30 22:18 UTC 版)
語源
Originated from a survey conducted in 2008 by the Australian consulting agency McCrindle Research, according to founder Mark McCrindle, who is generally credited with the term. McCrindle describes how his team arrived at the name in an interview in 2015:
When I was researching my book The ABC of XYZ: Understanding the Global Generations (published in 2009) it became apparent that a new generation was about to commence and there was no name for them. So I conducted a survey (we're researchers after all) to find out what people think the generation after Z should be called and while many names emerged, and Generation A was the most mentioned, Generation Alpha got some mentions too and so I settled on that for the title of the chapter Beyond Z: Meet Generation Alpha. It just made sense as it is in keeping with scientific nomenclature of using the Greek alphabet in lieu of the Latin and it didn't make sense to go back to A, after all they are the first generation wholly born in the 21st Century and so they are the start of something new not a return to the old.
McCrindle Research also took inspiration from the naming of hurricanes, specifically the 2005 Atlantic hurricane season in which the names beginning with the letters of the Latin alphabet were exhausted, and the last six storms were named with the Greek letters alpha through zeta.
固有名詞
Generation Alpha
- (demographics) The generation following Generation Z, born between the early to mid-2010s and the mid to late-2020s.
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2016, Jeanne Meister, Kevin J. Mulcahy, The Future Workplace Experience, McGraw Hill Professional, →ISBN, page 160:
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参考
名詞
Generation Alpha (plural Generation Alphas)
- A member of Generation Alpha.
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2021, Mark McCrindle, Ashley Fell, Sam Buckerfield, Generation Alpha: Understanding Our Children and Helping Them Thrive, Hachette Australia, →ISBN:
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Though the increased access to information afforded by technology is causing many Generation Alphas to experience up-ageing, it’s important to remember that they are still children.
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参照
- ^ Joe Pinsker (21 February 2020), “Oh No, They’ve Come Up With Another Generation Label”, in The Atlantic, archived from the original on 22 February 2020.
- ↑ Mark McCrindle, Emily Wolfinger (2009), The ABC of XYZ: Understanding the Global Generations, →ISBN, pages 199–212. See excerpt “Why we named them Gen Alpha”.
- ^ Mark McCrindle (22 September 2015), “Generation Alpha: Mark McCrindle Q & A with the New York Times”, in McCrindle, archived from the original on 14 March 2019. Quote is an outtake from the New York Times story.
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