Wars are very likely and are fought with fury. A new set of ideals is adopted. Low tolerance for risk -prone behavior. These Turnings appear again and again in each of the Cycles of American history. Check out Jim Brett's compilation of generational cycles .
Cohorts are individuals who have birth years in the same generation.
A secular event is the period of time within a generational cycle when society tries to reorder its institutions and public behavior as it recovers from a spiritual event. This generally occurs as the civics are approaching adulthood and the idealists are leaving middle age and relinquishing power. A spiritual event is the period of time during a cycle when idealists approaching adulthood attempt to change the values and personal behavior of society and the civics are beginning to give up their power.