Hello and welcome to my blog. This blog will primarily be used for information regarding Stage 2 Society and Culture. Information will be posted here regularly before and after lessons including relevant web links and discussions on relevant issues and issues to consider for IRs.
The first bit of information concerns definitions related to the holiday assignments all students were asssigned.
There are numerous definitions of the word culture, but one of most relevance to us is the one at Dictionary.com:
"the behaviors and beliefs characteristic of a particular social, ethnic, or age group: the youth culture; the drug culture".http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/culture
The term youth culture is not really so simple to define as it can be quite diverse, while many people may be considered youths they may not necessarily be part of the same sub-group. The following links will help with some parameters to consider:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Youth_subculture (NB this is a wikipedia page, so must be supported with other references such as http://www.uq.edu.au/boilerhouse/docs/YC%20report%20final%20email.pdf (NB only read up to page 10 of this document).
Some audiovisual representations of youth culture can be found at:http://aso.gov.au/education/culture/youth-culture/
For a detailed and somewhat complicated discussion of youth culture go to:Encyclopedia.com
One of the hardest parts of categorising and defining this term is trying to define what is youth, in the context of our subject we need to consider that it is a group that does not have adult responsibilities such as a mortgage, full time job, children etc--we can consider it to be anyone under the age of 18, but that ignores a group that while being adults in the eyes of the law, would indeed consider themselves part of a youthful sub-group. This is not THE definition, but one to consider.
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