Youth subculture
Youth subculture is a
Youth
The term, scene, can refer to an exclusive subculture or faction. Scenes are distinguished from the broad culture through either
Theories
Early studies in
Interactionist theorist Stan Cohen argues youth subcultures are not coherent social groupings that arise spontaneously as a reaction to social forces, but that mass media labeling results in the creation of youth subcultures by imposing an ideological framework in which people can locate their behavior.[10] Post-structuralist theories of subculture utilize many of the ideas from these other theories, including hegemony and the role of the media. In his book, Subculture: The Meaning of Style, Dick Hebdige subcultures as a reaction of subordinated groups that challenge the hegemony of the dominant culture.[11] This theory accounts for factors such as gender, ethnicity and age. Youth can be seen as a subordinate group in relation to the dominant, adult society.
Historical theorist Steven Mintz claims that until about 1955, youth subculture as such did not exist. Children aspired to (or were pulled into) adulthood as fast as their physical development allowed.[12] Marcel Danesi argues that since then, the media, advertisers and others have made youth the dominant culture of Western societies, to the point that many people retain what others consider to be immature attitudes far into adulthood.[13] This is further supported by P. Lewis, who claims that youth culture did not originate until the 1950s, with the development of rock and roll.[14] However, other historians have said that youth culture may have developed earlier, particularly in the inter-war period.[15] There were examples of new youth subcultures emerging throughout that period, such as the flapper.
Subcultures may also be seen as extensions of
See also
- Youth culture
- After-Eighty generation
- Baby Boom Generation
- Beat Generation
- Counterculture of the 1960s
- Hungry Generation
- Generation X
- Generation Y
- Generation Z
- La Sape
- List of subcultures
- Street fashion
- Trash culture
- Youth voice
Notes
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- ^ Brake, Michael (1985) Comparative Youth Culture: The sociology of youth culture and youth subcultures in America, Britain and Canada, Routledge, New York
- ^ Straw, Will (1991). "Systems of Articulation, Logics of Change: Communities and Scenes in Popular Music", Cultural Studies, 5, 3, pp. 273, 368-88
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- ^ Hall, Stuart & Jefferson, Tony. Resistance Through Rituals: Youth Subcultures in Post-war Britain, Routledge, London. 1993
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- ^ Cohen, Stan. Folk Devils and Moral Panics, Paladin, London. 1964
- ^ Hebdige, Dick. Subculture: The meaning of style, Menthuen & Co, London. 1979
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- ^ Lewis, P. The Fifties, Heinemann, London. 1978
- ^ Fowler, D. The First Teenagers: The lifestyle of Young Wage Earners in Interwar Britain, The Woburn Press, London. 1995
- ^ Arnett, J. J. (2002). Adolescents in Western countries on the threshold of the 21st century. In B. Brown, R. Larson, & T. Saraswathi (Eds.), ‘’The world’s youth: Adolescence in eight regions of the globe.’’ New York: Cambridge University Press.
- ^ Delsing, M. J. M. H., ter Bogt, Tom F. M., Engles, R. C. M. E., & Meeus, W. H. J. (2007). Adolescents’ peer crowd identification in the Netherlands: Structure and associations with problem behaviors. ‘’Journal of Research on Adolescence, 17,’’ 467-480.