Youth Culture
Definition: Youth culture is the way adolescents live, and
the norms, values, and practices they share.
Culture is the shared
symbolic systems, and processes of maintaining and transforming those systems.
Youth culture differs from the culture of older generations. Youth Culture can
include beliefs, behaviors, styles, and interests. An emphasis on clothes,
popular music, sports, vocabulary, and dating set adolescents apart from other
age groups, giving them what many believe is a distinct culture of their own.
Within youth culture, there are many distinct and constantly changing youth
subcultures. These subcultures' norms, values, behaviors, and styles vary
widely, and may differ from the general youth culture. Understanding what
adolescents think and do is fundamental to understanding the relationship
between structure and agency, social patterns and individual action.
(Research from Wikipedia)
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