Youth Culture in Late Modernity

Poised between the commercialism of mass consumption and a questioning of prevailing social norms, youth cultures offer a fascinating insight into the social and cultural state of Western societies. This innovative collection provides a lively exploration of such cultures, with all their implicit ironies and contradictions.

List of contents

Youth, Culture and Modernity - Johan Fornäs
The History of High and Low Culture - Ulf Bo[e with an umlaut above it}ethius
Youth, the Media and Moral Panics - Ulf Bo[e with an umlaut above it]ethius
The Media in Public and Private Spheres - Bo Reimer
The Shop, the Home and Femininity as a Masquerade - Hillevi Ganetz
Consistency and Change in the Lifeworld of Young Women - Sabina Holstein-Beck
Youth and Modern Lifestyles - Bo Reimer
Controlled Pleasures - Ulf Bo[e with an umlaut above it]ethius
Youth and Literary Texts

Summary

Poised between the commercialism of mass consumption and a questioning of prevailing social norms, youth cultures offer a fascinating insight into the social and cultural state of Western societies. This innovative collection provides a lively exploration of such cultures, with all their implicit ironies and contradictions.

Product details

• Authors: Goran Bolin, Johan Fornas, Johan Bolin Fornas
• Assisted by: Goran Bolin (Editor), Bolin Goran (Editor), Johan Fornas (Editor), Fornas Johan (Editor)
• Publisher: Sage Publications Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 13.12.1994
• EAN: 9780803988996
• ISBN: 978-0-8039-8899-6
• No. of pages: 208
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > Social education, social work; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; Cultural Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Children's Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Age groups: children, Age groups: adolescents, Popular Culture;Social Theory