Youth Culture Research Articles

The representation of a body / artificial body in A. Burgess’ A Clockwork Orange and the film adaptation by S. Kubrick

The article discusses representations of a hybrid body in the novel A Clockwork Orange and its film adaptation by S. Kubrick. Both works examine a hybrid body as a symptom of the post-human state. The article proves that in his film, Kubrick makes use of the novel’s imagery and, rather than creating a radically different work, is engaged in interpretation of the source. The eloquent orange metaphor, chosen by Burgess for the book’s title, directly points to the literary theme at the heart of the novel: youth as a restless and lawless time. In the novel, these ideas are supported with Shakespeare and Yeats quotations. That the writer should have turned to the theme of youth is explained as his response to the youth subculture of the late 1950s — early 1960s which was associated with asocial experience. The quotation from Yeats still enjoys prominence in Kubrick’s film, which, however, was made at a later date when youth culture had already received plenty of self-reflective feedback and definitions. This may partly explain the differences in the approach to the representation of a hybrid body in the book vs. the film. The article defines the central theme that prompts the choice of the representation method: an artist that embodies the power of youth and creativity

The problem of economic literacy development of children and youth

The article presents the urgency of the problem of improving thequality of economic education in educational institutions of different types under modern social challenges regarding the cooperation of society and nature, forecasting economic development of regions, organization of production taking into account environmental and socio-economic preconditions. The study used methods of conceptual and comparative analysis, as well as psycho diagnostic methods. Theoretical aspects of forming children’s basics of economic (financial) literacy taking into account social and geographical factors are substantiated. Some features of the development of schoolchildren’s economic thinking in the course of their training (rationalism, practicality, variability, problem character, etc.) are defined. The essence of the economic culture of student youth is outlined and the necessity to create an educational environment of the educational institution for its development is emphasized. The results of the empirical study on the state of the outlined problem in school practice are presented. It was found out that the formation of economic literacy in primary and secondary school involves students mastering general knowledge, skills, and abilities necessary for their lives.

About the formation of youth culture in the legacy of Academician Oleg Elel’yanovich Kutafin

The article presents an analysis of the works of Oleg Kutafin, devoted to the organization of educational activities among young people, the formation of the culture of the youth. Guided by his own experience at the university, Oleg Kutafin emphasized the special role of educational institutions in organizing work on the formation of culture and worldview of young people, which was carried out by universities along with party and other public institutions. The main goal of educational work with students was seen by Oleg Yemel’yanovich in the formation of the worldview of the younger generation based on the ideological values of Soviet society traditional for that period. The article presents an analysis of the scientist’s works devoted to the organization of educational work with young people, in particular, the academician’s articles “Forms of educational work with students in the conditions of a correspondence university” (1970) and “Permanent Commissions on Youth affairs of the Soviets” (1971), as well as O. Е. Kutafin’s interview in the scientific journal “Legal World” and scientific publications containing memoirs of contemporaries and students of academician O. Е. Kutafin are analyzed.

Saudi YouTube Influencers, Their Relationship to Dubai and the Role of Social Media in Dubai’s Urban Branding Strategy

Abstract YouTube influencers, especially from the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA), command a huge (young) audience and form part of a global pop cultural mainstream representative of the fast-growing digital content industry. These YouTubers are on one hand embedded in a highly professionalized network, consisting of multi-channel networks (MCN s), media companies, TV stations and advertising partners, all operating from Dubai. On the other hand, they feature Dubai’s cityscape and urban spaces in their posts and videos and contribute to urban branding. In this article, I want to evaluate the financially profitable relationship between influencers and Dubai by analyzing footage of the Saudi YouTuber and rapper Dyler (b. 2001). Taking into consideration the political economy of social media in the Gulf as well as the political economy of urban branding in Dubai, the article discusses the political consequences of this relationship on social media, youth culture and urban development in the region.

Australian Identity Politics Playing Tricks for Young South Sudanese Australians

ABSTRACT This article explores the key themes of African diaspora life for young people in Australia and their interplay with identity politics, primarily focusing on young South Sudanese Australians. This is captured through their participation in youth participatory action research (YPAR) facilitated by a small non-profit, Footprints. The notion of ‘identity politics playing tricks’ was derived from observing Footprints YPAR projects as South Sudanese Australian (SSA) Hip Hop artists discern their diaspora identities in the backdrop of a nation that often displays a political agenda about their presence. Alternatively, young people re-frame and assert their identity formation through their Blackness and pride in culture and establish themselves as social agents in the world. Utilising ‘critical race theories’ through the lens of ‘urban youth culture’, this article demonstrates how participants examine their multifaceted experiences whilst navigating cultural codes; how they negotiate and articulate their own identities in challenging circumstances and seeks to understand communities’ views on diaspora, social, national and cultural identities’ in a diverse environment. It addressed the themes of the politics of ‘reclaiming identity’. Findings point to the necessity to further explore racialisation discourses in localised contexts whilst prioritising the self-articulation of identities reviewing how young people enact agency and resilience.

Topical issues of an applied vaping research

The authors study the history and origins of vaping as a mass social phenomenon. Currently, users of electronic cigarettes and similar devices are divided into two segments: traditional smokers who switched to electronic cigarettes or combining them and new smokers who chose electronic cigarettes because of fashion, communication, entertainment, etc. It turns out that vaping is a social phenomenon that follows not only from one the desire to find an alternative to smoking. A large-scale discussion regarding vaping has unfolded in special scientific publications and in the media. It can be considered not only as a youth culture direction or trend, but also as a new unfavorable factor that strikes at the health of younger generations. All the existing deep and large-scale discrepancies in the content, place and role of vaping in modern society are certainly theoretical, and partly rhetorical. Without reinforcement by quantitative characteristics of its most diverse aspects, it is impossible to give a practical assessment of such a specific phenomenon. Applied vaping research is based on a set of exact indicators combined into a single and logically sound system that allows you to get a comprehensive idea of the object of cognition. The article presents the content of three existing independent sections of the system of vaping statistics indicators. The authors propose indicators that reveal the section of indicators of the effects of vaping. The possibilities of applied analysis of the consequences of the spread of electronic cigarettes in modern society are assessed.

Patriarchal Traces in Japanese Girls’ Fiction: Beyond the Loss of the Father to Patriarchal Mothers and Resistant Daughters

As World War II ended and a new democratic society was beginning in Japan, significant changes were made to the patriarchal system, changes such as the recognition of women’s rights and the dismantling of the Japanese family system which in turn affected youth culture. Against this backdrop, particularly within the genre of shōjo shōsetsu (girls’ fiction), new representations of the father, mother and shōjo (girl) emerged. Portrayals reflected not only the loss of power experienced by patriarchal figures after the defeat, but also the rise of new patriarchal mothers and resistant daughters. This article traces how changes in depictions of patriarchal authority in the genre reflect not only masculine humiliation around the war defeat, but also a contemporaneous rise in mothers whose intervention in their daughters’ life decisions saw an increase in less compliant daughters. It demonstrates how, although post-war shōjo fiction was founded on the loss of the autocratic patriarch and has since struggled to depict a more co-operative family man, as reflected through the genre, the loss of the father figure also helped sow the seeds of new forms of womanhood, and of girlish resistance and independence. These elements reveal a continued fight for democratic freedoms in post-war Japan.

The Movida Madrileña vs Spanish Punk Culture: Disenchantment, Hedonism and the Youth's Political Commitment During the Spanish Transición

The Movida Madrileña vs Spanish Punk Culture:Disenchantment, Hedonism and the Youth's Political Commitment During the Spanish Transición David Vila Diéguez In "The Construction of Youth in Spain in the 1980s and 1990s," Mark Allinson states that the eighties' and nineties' "Spanish youth culture is distinct in that its emergence from the heady excesses of a suddenly liberated post-Franco Spain deprives it of the social signification as deviance or resistance often associated with youth subcultures" (265). This resonates with those scholars who argue that the culture of the Transición was rather celebratory and that it functioned, among other things, as an element of political deactivation and amnesia regarding Spaniards' recent dictatorial past (Labanyi; Subirats; Resina; Vilarós; Martínez; Morán). In addition to this, Helen Graham and Jo Labanyi speak of youth culture during the Transición as the "official image of Spain" (312), placing Spanish youth cultures strictly within the dominant culture of the time and blurring the possibility of imagining the existence of other deviant or resistant subcultural formations. Finally, other scholars such as Nuria Triana Toribio go as far as to state that "movida or Nueva Ola, were the names given to Spanish punk" (275), in a definitive maneuver that cancels any possibility of a deviant punk subculture to have existed in Spain by establishing an ontological equivalence between punk and the mainstream and predominantly middle/upper-class Movida madrileña. Let me advance two of the most common erroneous conclusions drawn from these and other similar perspectives: that the Movida madrileña is the epitome of all youth cultures and subcultures in Spain and that there was a generalized political apathy among most young people during the Transición. Refuting these two conclusions is one of the main goals of this article. In order to do so, I will carry out a comparative study between the Movida madrileña and a another understudied but rather popular youth movement that I will, [End Page 113] from now on, refer to as Spanish punk culture, Spanish punk, or simply punk —three of the main ways in which the individuals involved in this movement referred to it in an attempt to clearly differentiate themselves from the Movida. By comparing these two movements, I aim to reassess the ways in which we understand the youth's political commitment during the Transición. Disenchantment and the Youth's Reaction to It In 1980's January edition of El ciervo, an agricultural engineer named José Antonio del Cañizo reflected on the disenchantment that affected most Spaniards at that time. "Con ser aún tan breve la etapa posfranquista, sin embargo ya pueden distinguirse en ella dos épocas: la de la ilusión por el cambio y la del desencanto" (Cañizo et al. 27). José Antonio viewed with sorrow how the same people that a few months ago "leía periódicos y revistas, iba a los mítines, leía montones de libros sobre política y, en definitiva, mostraba un gran interés por la clase política en general" (27), were now completely skeptical about politics and showed a severe case of "abulia" (27). Specifically talking about the Spanish youth, he regretted how, after running enthusiastically to join different political parties, "ahora se refugia[b]an, desengañados y frustrados en el pasotismo y la indiferencia" (27–28). This disenchantment has been studied by many cultural critics since then. Still in 1980, Jesús Ibáñez spoke of it as the state caused by "la distancia entre lo que [la democracia] pudo haber sido y lo que fue" (194), a perspective that aligns with Pedro Pérez del Solar's understanding of disenchantment as a "desilusión" (16). In a fairly similar vein, Santos Juliá refers to it as a gradual loss of faith in the government that started with the appointment of Adolfo Suárez as prime minister in 1976, "un falangista, católico y con amistades en el opus dei, presidente de una de las pocas asociaciones políticas acogidas a la legislación vigente, la Unión del Pueblo Español, y ministro...

THE CONTRIBUTION OF SOCIO-HUMANISTIC DISCIPLINES TO THE DEVELOPMENT OF EUROPEAN CIVIC COMPETENCES IN CREATIVE YOUTH

The creative youth needs a wide range of skills to realize their potential, both in their professional activity and in society. Civic competences are among the key competences, which have not yet found their well-established place in the education system of our country, as well as at European level. Contributing to the growth of the democratic culture of the creative youth, the civic competences can be fully developed in the study process of the socio-humanistic disciplines in the university education. The aim of the study was to examine the experience of training European civic competences in higher artistic education in order to contribute to the rethinking, appreciation and improvement of forms and methods, enriching the content of these experiences in modern conditions in accordance with the new realities.

Blue Notes 2.0: The Diachronic Resonance of Langston Hughes During the George Floyd Protests: A Foreword

Blue Notes 2.0: The Diachronic Resonance of Langston Hughes During the George Floyd Protests: A Foreword

TRANSFORMATION OF MORAL VALUES IN MODERN INFORMATION SPACE

It is indicated that morality in the traditional national spiritual culture has always had priority in constructing an ontological image of the world. Morality is quite difficult to shape in the conditions of mass culture because it declares the identity of material and spiritual values that act as products of mass consumption. It is pointed out that traditional values have ceased to be traditional because they are unable to meet the contemporary spiritual needs of people. The content and essence of moral norms change with changes in the social life of society. The most important crisis moments in the life of contemporary youth are analyzed. In the 21st century, such manifestations as intolerance, conflict, aggression, terrorism, and war became a particular threat to the moral values of young people. Now morality becomes global as global problems take precedence over regional problems. These are problems like the survival of mankind. Such problems bring with them the need to create a new vision of the world, to create a new moral paradigm that will significantly reevaluate traditional moral values. Such a system should be based on the common interest of human with all their conflicts and contradictions. One of the aspects of shaping the spiritual culture of youth, both innovative and consistent with high moral values, should be considered the conceptual approach within the so-called “culture of peace” that should be pursued not only as the goal of certain shaping influences, but as a strategic resource.

LANGUAGE AND STYLISTIC FEATURES OF THE COLLECTED POEMS “DROBNA ZMIANA” BY MARCIN ŚWIETLICKI

Introduction. Marcin Њwietlicki is a modern Polish poet and prose writer, winner of many literary awards. The critics praised his collections “Pieśni profana” (1998), “Czynny do odwołania” (2001), “Delta Dietla” (2015), etc. One of his latest works – “Drobna zmiana”, issued in 2016 – has practically not been investigated. This book is a sample for lexicosemantic analysis.Purpose. The purpose of the paper is to analyze the M. Њwietlicki’s collected poems “Drobna zmiana”, to determine the specific features of the author’s language with special interest to syntax, vocabulary and stylistics.Methods. The research is grounded on the descriptive method, the methods of synthesis and induction, contextual analysis and quantitative analysis as well. Results. The collection of poems “Drobna zmiana” is characterized by short and simple sentences, unusual titles (in particular, according to their belonging to the parts of speech), laconicism and cyclicity, polysemanticity, a large number of interrogative sentences, a combination of everyday and exotic vocabulary, anglicicisms, the names of modern subjects, “tabooed” lexemes.The quantitative analysis which results are given in the paper illustrates that titlesnouns (26,3%), titles-combinations of nouns with adjectives (25,3%) and with numerals (11%) are the most numerous in the investigated collection of poems. The popularity of titles-nounsis probably connected with specific author’s style, his world view and his tendency to watch and to nominate reality, both everyday and exotic things. The last place was occupied by poems’ namespronouns,adjectives, adverbs, verbs and a combination of several different parts of speech.Conclusion. The M. Њwietlicki’s language is modern and close to the youth culture, although this author was born in the early sixties of the XX century. The special linguistic features and distinctive style of the book “Drobna zmiana” make it controversial, ambiguous, deep in content and relevant to both linguists and a wide range of readers. This study has broad perspectives, which include, in particular, investigation of linguistic features of the other M. Świetlicki’s collected poems, analysis of his prose’s language, finding the peculiarities of these texts’ translations, as well as their comparison with the works of the other writers.

INDIVIDUAL FREEDOM OF YOUTH IN CATEGORIES OF LEGAL CULTURE

The article reveals the categories of legal culture as a sphere of individual freedom, which allows a young person to realize own preferences, talents and interests. Each new generation faces to the legal achievements of the predecessors correspond to self-realization and prospects of realizing the collective meaning of social self-development. The analysis of works on the issue testifies to the relevance and multidimensionality of both the problem itself and the methodological approaches to its scientific solution. The formation of legal culture of modern youth is covered in multidisciplinary issues of legal culture, legal awareness of man and young people in particular, legal education, training in pedagogical, psychological, philosophical, sociological, political, economic sciences, culture, public administration and social communications. Legal consciousness is formed in the process of personal development. The humanistic nature of the formation of modern youth’s legal culture is represented by the embodiment of social self-movement, which requires general scientific structure and typology of methods of cognition and transformation of reality in their development and relationships. The main methodology of formation of legal culture as a phenomenon and process is defined by the idea of ​​development.

Networked gift-giving: Ethno-religious minority youths’ negotiation of status and social ties in a society of distrust

The reciprocal exchanges of messages, likes, and pictures on social media are typical expressions of mobile youth culture. After all, it is well-established that young people’s disclosure practices support their efforts to maintain relationships, gain autonomy, and, by large, consolidate a place in the world. What is often missing, however, is an exploration of how the specific socio-cultural contexts of ethno-religious minority youths shape and are shaped by social media appropriations. Therefore, we conducted a 15-month ethnographic study among ethno-religious minority youths in which we investigated networked gift-giving practices. We stress the notion of “networked” because the results illustrate how these young people appropriate the amplified visibility of their relational maintenance behaviors on social media in order to negotiate status and social ties. We connect these findings to the concept of a “distrustful society” as the participants hold a general distrust in society due to experiences of racism and marginalization.

Islamic Revivalism and Muslim Consumer Ethics

Although scholars have examined the link between religiosity and consumer ethics, the idea of Muslim consumer ethics has not received much traction within academia. The idea of Muslim consumer ethics is a manifestation of religious revivalism. Yet, its discussion must consider the critical roles played by Muslim youth and their consumption of new media because the latter has a profound effect on shaping and directing popular Muslim youth cultures. Muslim consumer ethics encompass the moral and humanistic dimension of living in a globalized world as an extension of an individual’s religious practice. This phenomenon of ethical consumption has also been commoditized in a lucrative halal industry that fosters a Muslim identity market.

Disconnection More Problematic for Adolescent Self-Esteem than Heavy Social Media Use: Evidence from Access Inequalities and Restrictive Media Parenting in Rural America

Some argue that social media use displaces time that adolescents spend with friends and family and is therefore associated with lower psychological well-being. They reason that young people who experience “disconnection,” because their parents actively restrict media use, or they have limited material access to the Internet, are better protected from psychological harm. Prior research has misspecified and exaggerated the magnitude of the relationship between screen time and adolescent psychological well-being. If the harm associated with heavy (excessive) or even average use of new media has been overstated, then the recommendation of disconnection may also be problematic. New media use is heavily integrated into youth culture and sociality, restrictive media parenting practices or digital inequalities may rob adolescents of experiences that would otherwise be protective of self-esteem. We conducted a survey of rural adolescents, who are more likely to experience disconnection at home because of a lack of physical availability of broadband, not simply affordability. Based on that survey, we find that a negative relationship between screen time and lower self-esteem is eclipsed by a more substantive, negative relationship to inequalities in material access to the Internet and restrictive mediation of media by parents. Findings show that new media use does not substantively displace time spent socializing with family and friends and in other social activities (e.g., volunteering). Omitting the supportive, indirect relationship between time on social media and self-esteem, through time spent socializing, exaggerates the negative relationship between social media use and adolescent well-being for girls, and for boys, misspecified the direction of the relationship. Adolescents, who experience heavy restrictive mediation of media by parents or have limited Internet access at home, tend to report substantively lower self-esteem than heavy users of any new media.

An improvement of physical preparedness of students is by the independent engaging in physical exercises. Introduction

Optimization of the process of physical education in higher education institutions of Ukraine requires the search for new approaches to increase physical activity of student youth. Therefore, the issue of systematic independent physical exercise of students in their free time is acute. The aim is to develop a methodology for independent physical education classes and to test its impact on students' physical fitness. Material and research methods. Analysis and generalization of scientific and methodological literature, pedagogical observation, surveys, testing, methods of mathematical statistics. The study involved 27 first-year students of Volyn National University named after Lesya Ukrainka. Results. Independent classes of students form the basis of the formation of physical culture of the individual, in particular: physical self-education, self-development, self-realization. An attempt is made to show the importance of physical exercises in extracurricular time of students. Most of the surveyed freshmen have a relevant desire for physical improvement, readiness for independent work. Based on the voluntariness and initiative of students, a method of independent physical exercises has been developed for them. Its effectiveness has been proven during the experiment. For all tests, the increase in results at the end of the experiment is obvious. Thus, a well-developed method of physical education can improve the personality not only physically, but also eliminate mental fatigue and nervous tension. Conclusions. The national system of physical education in higher education institutions provides for the formation of physical culture in student youth, the ability to purposefully use its tools and methods for their own physical improvement. At the present stage, physical fitness and physical development are especially important as a source of health, education of an active, creative person, able to make decisions and implement them in the process of life.

BAHASA GAUL SEBAGAI MEDIA KOMUNIKASI BUDAYA DI ZAMAN MILENIAL

This study aims to discuss (1) adolescent slang in the form of abbreviations in the WhatsApp(WA) group of national-level short story writing competitions, (2) youth slang in the form ofwords in the WA group, and (3) slang as a medium of cultural communication in the millennialera. The research method uses qualitative methods. The research data were taken from two WAgroups in the national-level short story writing competition. Data collection techniques usinglistening and tapping techniques. The time used for data collection is half a year, from July2021 to December 2021. The results show ten forms of abbreviations and fifteen forms ofwords. Ten forms of abbreviations used by teenagers in chatting in the WA group of nationallevel
 short story writing competitions have variety, including abbreviations in English andIndonesian. The fifteen-word forms used by teenagers in chatting in the group also varied; ninewords came from English, six words came from Indonesian, there were variations inIndonesian words whose spellings were reversed (from the middle and behind), and There weretwo Jakarta dialect words. These findings represent adolescent self-identity. Communicationin the form of chatting is a youth culture, so there is a national-level short story writingcompetition in the WA group, which feels that teenagers tend to use slang. The number ofEnglish teenagers use in cultural communication shows that they want to be seen as modernand cool. By being looked at like that, teenagers feel happy and proud because they feel theyare not out of date. The findings from the study show that millennial youth have creativity incommunicating through abbreviations and variations of English to represent the context ofcontemporary culture that is modern, cool, and proud.

Nashville Opera’s One Vote Won (2020) and the Challenge of Engaged Opera Performance

In September 2020, Nashville Opera released a new opera by composer Dave Ragland and librettist Mary McCallum that brought together ‘the Women’s Suffrage Movement, the Civil Rights Movement, and the disenfranchisement of modern-day voters’. Set in a parallel present, One Vote Won centres sonic and visual markers of Black sorrow, rage, and joy during a year defined by police brutality and widespread protests in support of #BlackLivesMatter in the United States. This article explores Nashville Opera’s attempt to navigate the possibility of opera at the intersection of youth culture and activism. One Vote Won has been variously positioned by its creators as a nonpartisan vehicle of civic engagement; a model of Black representation in the world of opera; a record of Black history making connections to present-day social movements; and an example of ‘accessible’ opera that aims to curate new audiences through educational outreach efforts targeted at socially-conscious students. Building on Naomi André’s practice of ‘engaged musicology’ to posit an ‘engaged opera performance’ that considers the lived experience of audiences during the creation of the work, I show how the use of social media networks as both content and context for One Vote Won illustrates competing visions of operatic ‘engagement’.

‘Still beautiful’: Michèle Morgan in the 1960s

ABSTRACT This article examines Michèle Morgan’s films of the 1960s, the last phase in her long career, and one hitherto ignored by film history, largely on account of the dearth of auteur films in the star’s late filmography. Morgan’s 1960s films are explored against three contexts: the impact of the New Wave on popular cinema (in particular the arrival of youth culture); the changing social context, especially as it affected women; and the importance of age, given that Morgan was 40 at the beginning of the decade. Morgan’s films are shown to divide into two main strands: on the one hand, large-budget omnibus or ensemble films, mostly in light comic mode, and on the other hand, smaller-scale dramas in which she is systematically paired with a younger actor in a romantic relationship that is on the whole doomed. The article argues that the films’ deployment of Morgan’s star persona as the elegant bourgeois woman opposite younger actresses betrays society’s ambivalence towards the younger generation. At the same time, while Morgan is depicted as an attractive, sexually active, desiring woman in practically all the films, the narratives articulate a recurrent unease with the ‘older’ woman’s sexual identity.