Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Functionalist explanations for youth culture
- Functionalist do not discuss the differences between youth subcultures they group all youths together and discuss the overall function of youth culture
- Youth culture provides a bridge between childhood and adulthood
- Parsons
- Youth culture is a bridge between childhood and adulthood
- It is a transitional phase in which they can develop independence
- Youth culture has replaced traditional rites of passage
- Youth culture provides a forum for frustrations
- Esienstadt
- The transition from ascribed to achieved status is emotionally stressful
- Youth culture provides a forum for frustrations
- Youth culture is inherently binding as all youths go through the same stresses
- Youth culture means a generation gap is emerging
- Rozak
- differences between adults and children/ adolescents in terms of norms and values.
- Youths really stand out as different
- Evaluation
- Ignores the differences between spectacular subcultures and the tensions between them
- Ignores differences between genders, ethnicity and social class backgrounds when looking at youth culture