Youth Culture
Description
This module examines the construction and development of youth culture and transitions. It brings together the two major traditions of youth research: 1) the study of youth culture, sub-culture and identity, and 2) the study of the transition from adolescence into adulthood. Through various disciplines understandings of youth culture during modernity to contemporary understandings will be examined.
Learning Outcomes
Demonstrate a broad knowledge and understanding of youth culture, sub-culture and identity
Outline the formation of adolescence as a social category associated with modernity
Critically examine youth culture, individualism, consumerism and youth activism and their contribution to the formation of youth communities
Demonstrate an understanding of cultural difference, gender, social class in relation to transitions of development into adulthood
Critically appraise the role of film and television in constructing understandings of youth culture