CULTURE: Gen Zers Spending Less Time With Others; Young Men Dropping Out of the Workplace
(QUICK READ) — New survey data analyzed by the Institute for Family Studies (IFS) finds a sharp decline in the amount of face-to-face time young GenZers spend with other people, but especially their friends, in conversation.
There is also disturbing new data indicating young men are dropping out of the job market at unprecedented rates.
And there is even survey results showing AI romance isn’t attracting GenZers as one might think from the popular press.
The Charlottesville, Va-based IFS’s Insights Editor Grant Bailey discusses these developments and their potential sources with Family Studies Senior Editor Chris Bullivant in the following 5:07 video.
They point to the pervasive influence of the digital culture that has grown up in Western culture since the turn of the century:
[…] extends to politics, institutional distrust, and seems to correlate with lower levels of contact even with peers. Some drift rightward; others retreat from civic life entirely. The Spectator’s examination […]
[…] extends to politics, institutional distrust, and seems to correlate with lower levels of contact even with peers. Some drift rightward; others retreat from civic life entirely. The Spectator’s examination of […]