The Presence of Youth Cultures and Counter Cultures

In the 1950s, cars became very important and needed to go to school, shop, go further and get families to move to the suburbs and gain popularity. Television and radio help to make music very famous, and today it is susceptible to sustained impact, strange thing is not to consider the origins of music. Whatever it is often overlooked in all generations of history, but the impact is in young people. Youth culture refers to all norms, values, and customs that are recognized and shared by people of adolescent society.

The existence of youth culture is a relatively new historical phenomenon. There are several mainstream theories about the rise of youth culture in the 20th century. These include theories about the history, economic and psychological impact of youth culture. History theory considers the emergence of youth culture as the beginning of compulsory education. James Coleman considers age discrimination to be the root of independent youth culture. Before compulsory education, many children and adolescents mainly interact with adults. In contrast, modern children are widely related to other people of their age. Through these interactions, young people can share experiences and meanings that are the roots of youth culture.

There is controversy over the existence of youth culture. Some researchers think that the values ​​and ethics of young people do not differ greatly from the values ​​and ethics of their parents. In other words, youth culture is not an independent culture. Just because people are seeing what is considered today's youth culture does not mean that this phenomenon extends to young people of all ages. In addition, it is difficult (if not impossible) to define a single "youth culture", because the influence of a fellow depends on the environment, sex, age, social position.

Schwartz and Melten use the adolescent words to discuss the differences between the existence of youth culture and the rest of society. Schwartz believes that high school students use their vocabulary to create completely different meanings from teenagers. In particular, adolescent identity terms (words used by teenagers to represent hierarchical social status) include qualities and attributes that do not exist in adult identity judgment. Schwartz believes this reflects the difference in social structure and the difference between how adults and young people experience social reality. This difference shows cultural differences between young people and adults and supports the independent existence of youth culture.