Youth culture

PRESENTED BY: Trieu Anh Thien – 10 Anh 1

 The definition of youth culture?

Youth culture is the way chilren, adolescents and young

adults live, and the norms, values, and practices they share. –
Wikipedia

Marlis Buchmann, one of the contributors to current studies in

this area, defines the youth culture: “Youth culture refers to
the cultural practice of members of this age group by which
they express their identities and demonstrate their sense of
belonging to a particular group of young people.”
  To understand the
relationship between
structure and agency,
social patterns and
individual action.
Why should
we  To explore and make the
most of youngster’s
understand potentiality of energy and
the youth creativity.
culture?
 Youngsters eventually
become adults and full
participants in all aspects
of social life
FORMATION
• developed in the 20th century

• increase in standard of living, the

explosion of post-war consumer
culture and wider psychological
research into adolescents.

• people having more leisure time to

gather together
 How did the youth culture
develop?
Each different generation will have their own youth culture
that reflects their lives and times.

from the mid-50s to the late-

1 70s 3 During the 90s

from the late 70s to early 80s

2 4 Nowadays
 From the mid-50s to the late-70s
• behavior that is considered
immoral: drinking, smoking, using
drugs.

• wearing the same clothes as their

mates, and rebelling against
capitalism.

• a series of youth subcultures:

teds, mods, skinheads, punk…
 From the late 70s to the early 70s
• youth culture began to change, and
became less gang-oriented.

• the emergence of new subcultures

slowed down, and the period of
revivals began.

• ‘scarcity’, ‘unemployment’, ‘anxiety’,

‘defensiveness’, ‘pragmatism’,
‘subsistence’ and ‘survival’.
 During the 90s

• youth were considered to

be dull and a bit
conformist.

• two sub-cultures: club-

culture and cyberculture
became popular.
 Nowadays
• youngster now are stronger,
more united, far more open-
minded, more likely to adapt
new foreign culture than the
old generation.

• youth culture associates

with techniques and media
culture.
 What about Vietnam?

PAST PRESENT
Participated in many youth
The young generation now
movements, became the
has a more comfortable life
main force in the campaign
and intergrates with foreign
for the liberation of our
cultures.
nation.
 • Biological and physiological changes
• Economic and political circumstances
• Cultural, ethnic and community
circumstances
• Family as well as peer and school factors
YOUTH

CULTUR SOCIET
E Y
• Positive: development in awareness of
equality, connection with everyone all over
the world…
• Negative: impressionable => juvenile
delinquency,…
CONCLUSIO
What should we do with
N the young generation?
• The youth culture is a type of  Creat an encouraging
stereotype wherein we are society who can uplift
trying to fit in all the youth of the young generation to
the world. create a better
tomorrow.
• The youth are from all over the
world, they glorify in their
diversity.
 The End!
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