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Youth Culture

The 60’s and 70’s saw the rise of youth culture. Youth culture can be seen as a particular pattern of beliefs, values, symbols and activities that a group of young people are seen to share.
Along with the rise of youth culture came the theories developed on it. The theories developed in the 60’s were mainly functionalism. Functionalists believe that society or a social structure is like a biological structure and that all social institutions function for the survival of society. As social structures change by becoming more complex, social institutions change by becoming more specialised. Functionalists, therefore, believe youth culture has a social function; they see it as young people solving there shared social problems.
The Marxist theories on youth culture came in the 1970’s. Marxists believe that society operates mainly through class conflict and that each class pursues its own interests and brings it into conflict with other classes. The Marxist influenced Centre for C...

Posted by: Garrick Christian

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