PART 1

- Youth Culture
- Youth & Youth Subculture
- Examples of Youth Culture:
Trends of the Past & Today
Personal Appearance
Entertainment Preferences
Challenging Norms

Youth culture
Fitting in with Peers
- 2 Ways we can Understand Youth
Biological
Social
EMILYN MAXIMO, LPT - Understanding Youth Culture
- Development of Youth Culture
 Youth Culture
refers to the ways that teenagers conduct

their lives. It pertains to interests, styles,

behaviours, music, beliefs, vocabulary,

clothes, sports and dating.

YOUTH CULTURE
According to Janssen et al.

there are definite elements of youth society that

constitute culture, and that these elements differ from
those of their parents' culture.
 YOUTH CULTURE TOPIC
OVERVIEW
KEY
CONCEPTS
YOUTH YOUTH
SUBCULTURE

15-24 y/o Developed by groups

The period of life is subordinate
structural positions in
between childhood
response to dominant
and adulthood. or larger system.
Examples of Youth Culture:
Trends of the Past & Today

Personal Appearance

Entertainment Preferences

Challenging Norms

Fitting in with Peers

 Personal Appearance
• Twenty-first century youth seem to have a “less is more mindset,”
 Carl E. Pickhardt Ph.D.
Surviving (Your Child's) Adolescence

 Puberty is a big deal.

 Entertainment Preferences
Modern youth tend to connect
with peers digitally
Video games
Music
Entertainment preferences often
change
Challenging Norms
 Environmental responsibility is a major emphasis
 Behavior that is contrary to what is perceived to be accepted and
expected by parents
 Teens often engage in bold language choices in order to set themselves
apart.
 rebellious youth
 As teens start to develop their own worldview, it’s common for them to
exhibit attitude or behavioral changes toward things like school,
religion or family.
 Greta Thunberg, in
full Greta Tintin Eleonora
Ernman Thunberg, (born
January 3, 2003, Stockholm,
Sweden), Swedish
environmental activist who
worked to address the problem
of climate change, founding
(2018) a movement known as
Fridays for Future (also called
School Strike for Climate).
 Fitting in with Peers
 Youth who spend time with friends from wealthier backgrounds may start to
prefer more expensive goods (phones, backpacks, shoes) similar to what their
friends have.
 Teens who identify with youth culture may start to refuse to go to certain
“uncool” establishments with their family in order to appear more acceptable to
peers.
 Depending on the behaviors of their peer group members, youth may change the
way they treat others, either by showing greater kindness or perhaps more
aloofness.
 The desire to fit in can also impact teens’ academic performance. Making similar
grades to one's peers is a way that teens can conform to the expectations of their
peer groups.
 Understanding Youth Culture
 Psychologists such as Erik Erikson theorize that the primary
goal in the developmental stage of adolescence is to answer
the question, "Who am I?"

 Theorists such as Frank Fasick agree that adolescents are in

a confused state and that identity development happens
during this time as they exert independence from parents
and have a greater reliance on their peer groups.
Development of Youth Culture

Youth culture truly developed in the 20th

century when it became more common for
adolescents to gather together than in past
centuries.
Thank you!