Snowflake Generation: theoretical foundation and brief characterization

The material answers two questions. First concerns who is the snowflake generation. To answer this question, I will clarify conceptually what I mean by the following: generation (based on the definition of the German sociologist Karl Mannheim), then give a brief history of the concept of snowflake, and then discuss the central concept of the paper, snowflake generation. The second question I set out to answer is “how are these young people like?”. To answer this question, I will start from the work of researchers Claire Fox (2016, 2018) and Jean Marie Twenge (2014) but not only and analyse the data that will help me shape the profile in question. My intention is to first identify the three main characteristics of this profile, and then to observe sociologically what their implications are. I am interested in the “snowflake generation” because, as Professor Ilie Bădescu states, generations are “identity vehicles”213 and their study contributes to the understanding of social structures.