Modern Youth Culture Research Articles

Political Values, Orientations and Ideals of Modern Youth and Their Reflection in Virtual Space

Introduction. The active dissemination of information and digital technologies in the 20th century has led to the fact that the virtual space today has become the main platform for expressing the political, cultural and spiritual values of young people. Representatives of this age group most often use digital resources as a means of self-expression and a channel for obtaining information about changes in the modern world. In Russia, the virtual space is used by various actors to form public opinion and include young people in the political and public life of the state. On the other hand, the possibilities of the virtual space are often used as a tool for misinforming young people, spreading fakes, extremist and radical sentiments. Given the difficult foreign policy situation and the need to ensure the national security of the Russian Federation and protect its population, including in the virtual space, it becomes necessary to study the political orientations and values of young people. Methods. The basis of the methodology of this article is formed by a combination of general scientific, special and applied methods. The choice of the axiological approach as a methodological basis for the study of value orientations and ideals of modern youth made it possible to consider values as an important social phenomenon that requires a specific study that reflects the features of the reflection of political values in the virtual space. Hermeneutical analysis, presented in line with the integration of qualitative and quantitative research methods, is used in the study of the formation of personal identity, values, experiences of the younger generation associated with the expression of their individuality and political preferences in a virtual environment. The semiotic approach was used in the process of studying the sign-symbolic field of modern youth culture in the virtual space. The empirical basis of the study was statistical data that allows us to assess the involvement of young people in the Internet environment and trace the trends in the development of the virtual space in modern Russia. The materials of sociological surveys conducted by the Levada Center and the All-Russian Public Opinion Research Center made it possible to draw conclusions about the inclusion of Russian society in the virtual space, as well as about the value preferences of Russians aged 18 to 35 regarding material, family and civic ideals. Results and Discussion. The article is aimed at studying the characteristics of young people as an age group and the specifics of the reflection of their value ideals in the virtual space. The development of the Internet and social networks leads to new problems and potential dangers for the younger generation, which spends a lot of time in the virtual space. It is concluded that the life guidelines of young people are a high level of material well-being, the opportunity to live a measured life and benefit society. Despite the greater awareness of young people about the history and culture of Russia, about the importance of family values, this age group is characterized by the formation of a Western mentality based on the values of consumer individualism. Ignoring the traditional media, young people listen to “opinion leaders”, which makes them more vulnerable to all sorts of manipulations by political actors hostile to our country.

Modern Crimean Tatar national costume: succession and novelties (based on the example of Crimean dress designers)

This article analyzes the modern Crimean Tatar costume from the perspective of succession of the traditional elements. The author systematizes general approaches towards design of the traditional and modern costume, indicating the characteristic features. At the present stage, the elements of the traditional Crimean Tatar costume are growing in popularity. Interpretation and modern stylization of the traditional elements of national costume leads to the formation of the unique style. The leading phenomenon in the approach towards design of the modern national costume is the scientific basis, which helps to preserve the traditional elements. The object of this research is the modern Crimean Tatar costume, while the subject is decorative and graphic approaches towards design. The primary task consists in determination of the principles of creation of Crimean Tatar image and its implementation into Crimean modern culture. The novelty of this research is defined by insufficient examination of the modern Crimean Tatar costume on the scientific level, although actively implemented into modern youth culture. The creative direction in the works of modern Crimean Tatar designers is divided into three approaches: verbatim reproduction of ethnic costume (mostly used wedding gear and theater costumes), authorial interpretation, and avant-garde approach, using metaphors as the basics of style. It is noted that in the approach with allusive metaphors it enough to complement modern costume with headwear similar to the traditional to add national flavor to the image. The author underlines the importance of development of modern Crimean fashion in all three directions, as each approach has a particular function.

Muchacho que vas militando: Stardom, Youth Culture, and Politics in Palito Ortega Films (1970–1975)

Scholars of Argentine cinema have engaged extensively with the oppositional politics of the Nuevo Cine of the 1960s and ’70s, but much less with the cinema of that time that offered support to more conservative politics. In the interest of better understanding such support in mass culture, this essay contextualises the films made between 1970 and 1975 that star the pop idol Ramón “Palito” Ortega and examines how his star persona – which had been constructed through television, songs, magazines, and films – evolves through the first half of the decade, asking how this evolution is significant in the period’s turbulent context. In the films, Ortega functions as an avatar for a conservative bourgeois morality by delegitimising practices associated with, first, modern youth culture, then, after 1973, specific politically left practices, while exalting traditional practices that support social hierarchies compatible with the Peronist conservative orthodoxy. The essay finds that this process of politicisation runs from nostalgic nationalist reaction against modern internationalising youth culture to, with the legalisation and return to power of Peronism, examples of matter-of-fact anti-Communism and veiled anti-Semitism in affinity with the conspiracy theories propagated by the Far Right that took power in the pre-dictatorship period.

„Days of Future Passed“

Historians insist that every historical period and decade has its own perception of time. This temporal notion allows us to distinguish decades from another. Following research on the historicity of time, the article reconstructs patterns of temporality scholars address when writing about the 1960s. The contribution critically asks how contemporary urban youth culture and temporal notions like a future-oriented conciousness corresponded to each other. The paper shows that next to the optimism historians and contemporary witnesses associate with the 1960s, various temporal layers shaped the everyday life of Britons. They allowed to create different relationships between the past, present and future and by so doing could correlate with the addressed optimism that would have annihilated the past. The paper reveals that contemporary discourses on time and temporality influenced the youth question. Modern youth culture turned into an indicator for evaluating the speed of social change. At the same time, youth culture was set in relation to time efficiency and provoked moral panics about the fear of stagnation.

Tolerable Deviance and How it Applies to Cyberbullying

ABSTRACTAs a result of the modern youth culture’s reliance on technology and instant communications, mainly through social media platforms, bullying has transitioned to the online domain where cyberbullying has emerged. Among youth, cyberbullying can be viewed as a type of tolerable deviancy where youth often do not question the deviant nature of their online behaviors. This research explores the creation of the scale of deviancy as developed through a qualitative popular film analysis where low-, moderate-, and high-level deviancy characterize various cyberbullying behaviors and captures the essence of the escalation of harm faced by cyber victim(s).

The Political Logic of the Attribute of the Modern Youth Culture under the Ecological Invasion

This article starts with the cultural ecology, ecological invasion and the eventuality of the modern youth culture and borrowing from the exotic species invasion further constructs the ecological invasion in the field of the cultural ecology and eliminator explores its theoretical and realistic meaning. Through the representations presented by the eventuality of the modern youth culture, this article also attempts to explain the nature of various youth pop cultural elements. It proceeds with the deep analysis of the philosophical relationship between the eventuality and the nature of the modern youth culture, the irradiate effect the ecological invasion brings to the modern youth culture. It ultimately tries to explore the development trend of the eventuality of the modern youth culture, to build the fire wall of the cultural ecology and to identify the core values of Chinese socialism.

大学生にみる現代の青年文化 : 宗教ブームと青年の意識 ( 青年と文化)

大学生にみる現代の青年文化 : 宗教ブームと青年の意識 ( 青年と文化)

The use of social media among adolescents in Dar es Salaam and Mtwara, Tanzania

Social media form part of the rapid worldwide digital development that is re-shaping the life of many young people. While the use of social media by youths is increasingly researched in the North, studies about youth in the South are missing. It therefore remains unclear how social media can be included in interventions that aim at informing young people in many countries of the global South about sexual and reproductive health. This paper presents findings of a mixed-methods study of young people’s user behaviour on the internet and specifically of social media as a platform for sexual health promotion in Tanzania. The study used questionnaires with 60 adolescents and in-depth interviews with eight students aged 15 to 19 years in Dar es Salaam, and in Mtwara, Southern Tanzania. Findings show that youth in Dar es Salaam and Mtwara access the internet mainly through mobile phones. Facebook is by far the most popular internet site. Adolescents highlighted their interest in reproductive and sexual health messages and updates being delivered through humorous posts, links and clips, as well as by youth role models like music stars and actors that are entertaining and reflect up-to-date trends of modern youth culture.

Web History and the Web as a Historical Source

The web and tomorrow’s historiography. Since the 1990s the world wide web (or simply, the web) has been an integral and important part of the communicative infrastructure of modern societies. On the one hand the web has developed as a new medium in its own right, in continuation of other media types such as newspapers, film, radio and television. On the other hand, the web has been intimately entangled in the social, cultural and political life taking place outside of the web. For example, within the realm of politics the web has been essential for the extreme left and right since the mid 1990s (as a platform for discussion and mobilisation as well as for the diffusion of political ideas). And in everyday life an important part of modern youth culture has for a number of years been closely connected to such web phenomena as YouTube, Facebook and Twitter.

What Would Erik Erikson Say Now? Just About Everything You Wanted to Know About Modern Youth Culture and the Internet

What Would Erik Erikson Say Now? Just About Everything You Wanted to Know About Modern Youth Culture and the Internet

Hemoglobin, iron, nutrition and life-style among adolescents in a coastal and an inland community in northern Norway

Background. Adolescents, influenced by modern youth culture, may have a diet containing too little iron and other vital nutrients.Materials and methods. Adolescents from Finnmark county, situated well above the arctic circle in Norway, from a Sami culture, and from a coastal culture, were examined to study hemoglobin, iron stores, dietary composition, food habits and life-style. A short intervention with dietary instructions was made, followed by re-examination after one year.Results. The inland adolescents had larger iron stores, higher dietary intake of meat and protein, and lower intake of sugar than coastal ones, in accordance with traditional Sami diets. All groups had too high intake of sugar and fat, and too low intake of vitamin D and fibre, compared to national recommendations. The adolescents hardly consumed fish. About 1/3 of them had a high dietary iron density, as well as higher concentrations of other dietary nutrients and a more health promoting life-style in general. The short intervention did not have any effect on the magnitude of the iron stores, and only minor effects on food habits and life-style.Conclusion. The adolescents from the Sami community still had a diet based on tradition. This was not found in the coastal community. The iron density in the diet may serve as an indicator of positive food habits and life-style in general. The modest effect of intervention, emphasizes the need for a creative, preventive medicine.

Drinking Games and Rite of Life Projects

The aim of this article is to present a social comparison of modern youth culture and the local traditions regarding the drinking of alcohol in Italy and Norway. We argue that the use of alcohol in `wet and dry drinking cultures' in northern and southern Europe has grown more similar. Young people, in both countries, drink beer and spirits at weekends, holidays and during the period of their final exams for intoxication, transition to a new phase of life and celebration purposes within the peer group. The modern innovations of practice combine a ritual structure of traditional forms of `rite of passage' (Turner, 1969; Van Gennep, 1960) with modern individualistic rites (Beck, 1997). In the modern local and global youth culture, use of alcohol for intoxication purposes is the key symbol for `free flow' in the phase of transition from childhood to the individual life project of creating one's social identity. This mixing of old ritual structures and modern reflexive individualization rituals has led to us coining a new concept of `rite of life projects'.

The Emergence of a Modern Youth Culture: The Swedish 1930s

This study traces the emergence of a modern youth culture in the 1930s in Sweden, thus challenging the view that it was born in the 1950s. Sweden, at that time, was a society at the crossroads; all over culture and society, modernity opposed what was given. The new youth culture is traced through a study offive popular cultural forms-boys' literature, particularly aviation books, girls' literature, sport, and national and US film, with a special focus on music-looking particularly for its patterning in what is called the boundary and intensity dimensions. Thus, it is possible to demonstrate rich cultural resources for a modern youth culture. However, balancing this against still existing socioeconomic restrictions makes the picture more ambiguous. What is found is not a generalized modern youth culture, but its emergence, resonating in interesting ways with the new Folkhem (the People's Home).

The Emergence of a Modern Youth Culture: The Swedish 1930s

The Emergence of a Modern Youth Culture: The Swedish 1930s

Young People and Globalizing Trends in Vietnam

ABSTRACT The past 10 years have seen an increasing research emphasis on young people and youth culture. The appearance of this very journal is testimony to a surge in academic interest. However, not much has so far been written in this vein about youth culture phenomena in post-Communist countries undergoing radical change towards a market economy. Yet this is clearly a very interesting investigation as one of the great meta-narratives of history—State Communism—declines. In the complex discursive aftermath of perestroika or doi moi, young people are at the cutting edge of deep social and economic change. Although the generational shift in identity-formation towards greater individualism, and conspicuous consumption, is really only one part of global economy integration, it is an important part, as new kinds of state citizens emerge. This paper examines globalization in relation to cultural shifts in modern youth culture in Vietnam. The focus is primarily on urban life in Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City.

The Delinquents: Censorship and Youth Culture in Recent U. S. History

Throughout the twentieth century, and even earlier, adults have attempted to publicly control, and even censor, teenagers' access to various artifacts of mass culture—including magazines, music, comic books, movies, television and radio programs, and books. The motivation has been twofold: to shield the young from certain perceived pernicious influences and to encourage a national cultural uniformity/conformity heavily motivated by Christian morality and the dread of racial (and class) mixing. Fears of youthful extremism, sparked by corrupting influences, have waxed and waned, depending on various social, political, economic, cultural, technological, and other configurations. But attempts at censorship have generally continued, earmarking even newer forms of mass communication, most recently cable television and the computer Internet. Any understanding of this development must take into consideration both the fears and motivations of the adult majority, as well as the complexities of modern youth culture, all within a larger national matrix. Adults' fear of youthful rebellion and their urge to control youth became particularly glaring during the 1950s, when the winds of change seemed particularly brisk.