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Youth culture project
When I looked up the dictionary for the definition of youth I found several relevant meanings and they were:
· The condition or quality of being young
· The time of life between childhood and maturity
· A young person, especially a young male in late adolescence
· Young people considered as a group
Afterwards I looked up the definition of culture so I could eliminate to define what “youth culture” is
Were:
· The whole of socially conveyed behaviour patterns, arts, beliefs, organizations, and all other products of human work and thought. ... I think that since the youths actually began to be recognised in the society, as a distinguished phase in their life is when “youth “ and “culture” were affixed to describe an incessant process population of people in society in the mediocre of adulthood and childhood.
Youth culture and youth subcultures have been a subject of research
Defining youth can be difficult and is described in the Concise Oxford
Dictionary as: "the state of being young, the period between childhood and adult age" - Oxford Dictionary (1990). ... Frith describes youth as "not simply an age group, but the social organization of an age group" Sociologists of youth, according to Frith, describe youth culture as "the way of life shared by young people".
Subculture, as defined in the Concise Oxford Dictionary, is a cultural group within a larger culture often having beliefs or interests at variance with those of the larger culture. This would imply that a subculture is a subdivision of a national culture; it exists between the parameters of certain cultures. ... There was identification that they were delicate, inferior, then when it came to the age of 18 they were regarded as adults but it wasn’t only till the 20th century did society have the affluence, mass culture and social changes that meant there was an additional faction between childhood and maturity. This was the commencement of “teenagers” in youth culture.
This research project is delve into in the origins, purpose/influence in addition to culture, media, gender, ethnic groups, social class, education and peer group influence.
The origins of youth culture
In the 19050s shortly after the war jobs proliferated and wages had escalated almost instantly. ...
The main consumers in this market were initially formerly the working classes; having distinctive clothes and a youth culture of music but then is begun to broaden amongst the middle class. ... If a youth culture is attached to a social class and social classes are now partly disintegrated then this explains why there has been no substantial youth culture in a decade. ...
Purpose/influence
Influences in of youth culture
In this culture there are several aspects that affect the behaviour and they are:
Media
Gender
Ethnic
Socials class
Education
Peer
The media is, I think the second biggest influence in the youth culture because media has become the mass means of communication and in minimal terms it is all around us and there is no escaping it. ...
Sense 1
youth culture -- (young adults (a generational unit) considered as a cultural class or subculture)
=> subculture -- (a social group within a national culture that has distinctive patterns of behavior and beliefs)
=> coevals, contemporaries, generation -- (all the people living at the same time or of approximately the same age)
A young person (especially a young man or boy) [ young person, ] 2: young people collectively; "rock music appeals to the young"; "youth everywhere rises in revolt" [young] [ant: aged] 3: the time of life between childhood and maturity 4: early maturity; the state of being young or immature or inexperienced 5: an early period of development; "during the youth of the project" [ early days] 6: the freshness and vitality characteristic of a young person [ youthfulness, juvenility]
There is no such thing as youth culture.
When you hear the term ‘youth culture’ what springs to mind? ...
Mean by youth culture? Teenagers were invented 50 years ago – youth
Culture was about rock and roll, fashion, etc. For quite a while there was a
Definite youth culture - Young people were into it and it was very different to
What parents were into? ... Music,
Fashion, patterns of consumption and leisure that defined youth culture are
Now fragmented across the ages. ... ’
If there’s no youth culture perhaps we might speak of youth cultures? We live
in a culture where diversity is the norm for young people – diversity of life
experience, family background, education etc. ...
My last point by way of introduction is a story to get you thinking about
Christian perceptions of youth culture (even if it doesn’t exist! ...
Any culture has good and bad. But it is all too easy to probematise young
people and their culture, to think of them as lost in a dark and dangerous
world…. ... I confess to being a lover of
contemporary and popular culture. ...
1) Consumerism
(Tesco ergo sum – I shop therefore I am)
One of the most significant features of the culture in which we live in Britain at
the end of the second millennium is that it is a culture based on consumption. ... ‘the most significant dimension of the shift from modernity to
post-modernity is the move from a culture in which personal identity and
social integration were found through production and the workplace to a
culture based on consumption, the market and personal choice now. ...
Sociologist Zygmunt Bauman is one of the best critics of a consumer culture –
he shows the dark side of it I guess, points out the people that can’t get into
the shops. ... But ‘many
others are trying to deal with the threatened disintegration of our culture by
engaging in a self conscious search for spiritual answers that will hold out the
possibility of providing a secure basis on which to build new lives in the third
millennium’. ... Tom Beaudoin narrates his own story in
‘Virtual Faith’ and I suspect it is typical of many when he writes ‘I was awash
in popular culture and alienated from official religion. ... Several writers have concluded
that the church has so wedded itself to the culture of modernity that it’s the
only frame of reference in which it knows how to operate. ... Whilst elsewhere in the culture there is a fascination with
mystery, the numinous, angels, heaven and the after-life, ‘at best the church
seems to speak uncomfortably about them’. ... ‘
The emerging culture is bleak about the future prospects of humanity on a big
scale. ...
Adolescence – time of transition
The culture is on a journey – so are young people. ...
Outro
To return to where I began, I have tried to suggest that there is no such thing
as youth culture per se but there is a range of ways in which young people are
living their lives. We do well to try and read the culture and signs of the times. ... The shift from a modern to post-modern culture, consumerism, truth,
the search for spirituality, changing patterns of family life, technology, and the
life stage that students are at coming out of adolescence into adulthood. ... As God in Christ entered our
world and culture so he calls us to follow this pattern ‘As the father has sent
me so I’m sending you into the world’.
Jonny Baker, September 2001
Workshop notes from the National Convention on Christian Ministry in Higher Education
Youth culture
Concluding Weekends review of the modern age
Katie Milestone
Saturday December 18, 1999
The Guardian
They blast the flesh off humans! ...
The emergence of this thing called "youth culture" is a distinctly 20th-century phenomenon; the collision of increased standards of living, more leisure time, the explosion of post-war consumer culture and wider psychological research into adolescents all contributed to the formation of this new social category defined by age. Previously, the rite of passage between childhood and adult life had not been so clearly demarcated -this is not to say that young adults didnt have their own activities before the invention of Brylcreem and crepe soles (youth gangs were common in Victorian Britain, for example) but it hadnt before been defined or packaged as a culture.
Once "invented", the "youth culture" provoked a variety of often-contradictory responses: youth was dangerous, misunderstood, the future, a new consumer group. British post-war youth culture emerged primarily in response to the American popular culture centred on rock n roll. ... The fear was not only of hoodlums but also of the creeping Americanisation of British culture. ... Later, within rave culture, drug use - this time, ecstasy - was central to the point of being almost obligatory.
Dick Hebdige, acommentator on youth culture, argues that the multicultural nature of post-war Britain was crucial to the formation of many subcultures; each one, he says, should be seen as a response to the presence of black culture in Britain, the ska/rudeboy-inspired two tone movement being a particularly vivid example. ... But then, youth culture is full of contradiction: the desire to express individuality by wearing the same clothes as your mates, and rebelling against capitalism at the same time as being a perfect capitalist slave. ... Even something as recent as 80s dance music and rave culture - after its initial, Smiley-faced, ecstasy-fuelled unity - fragmented into a multitude of sub-genres with no definable set of cultural attributes. Despite societys consistent attempts to regulate youth culture, perhaps the main cause of its demise in recent years is the extension of adolescent behaviour until death by the Edwinas and Patsys of this world. Youth culture is now just another lifestyle choice, in which age has become increasingly irrelevant. ...
Youth culture, street culture, adolescence, childhood, teenagers, kids, youths, youngsters etc etc…
There is a lot of confusion about the meaning of childhood and what we think about childhood had changed over the centuries. ... It is most certainly true today that there is not one singular youth culture but a variety of different youth subcultures. ... Firth states that "culture is all learned behavior which has been socially acquired"
To concentrate on the bikers of the 60s seems fitting. This was one large youth culture and still exists is a smaller section of society. ... Analysis of youth culture in Britain has been influenced mainly by Marxist thought. ... If a youth culture is attatched to a social class and social classes are now partly disintegrated then this explains why there has been no substantial youth culture in a decade. ...
The ravers from the eighties are a good example of another post-war youth culture. ... For the ravers (also known as clubbers) the shared experience is attending a rave and possibly taking ecstasy which has
become synonymous with the rave culture. ... The growth of capitalist culture and leisure industries has meant that all young people now have access to the cultural resources they need to engage in symbolic creativity in their leisure time. Basically, youth culture has become complicated. ...
Media also plays a great part in the prevention of a nw youth culture forming. ... While the term has a more restricted sociological meaning in reference to the distinctive style of life of specific status groups, within contemporary consumer culture it connotes individuality, self expression, and a stylistic self-consciousness. ... Although there are a number of subcultures left in todays society such as surfies, townies and people who follow the grunge movement, there is no singular youth culture left.
Youth Culture can have the following elements:
1. ... A By-product to sell commodities
To this day there is a tension between a Youth Culture (Youth Expression) and a Youth Market (Youth Consumption), but the latter is increasingly becoming more dominant as the Spice Girls phenomenon clearly indicates
Approximate Word count = 9493
Approximate Pages = 38
(250 words per page double spaced)
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