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YSED604 Youth Cultures

10 cp
Prerequisites Nil
Teaching Organisation Students will participate in the equivalent of 24 hours class contact in a semester in a range of face-to-face and flexible-delivery approaches.

This unit offers sociological and anthropological insights into youth cultures. The unit explores historical and the lived experiences of collective youth action. It considers both legitimate youth cultures (eg scouts, schools) and those with a deviant status. Questions are asked about the distinctive features of each. The role of the media and professionals are evaluated in respect to various state and institutional responses to collective youth action. Similarly the role of the economy, and particularly the fashion and music industries, is analysed in respect to young peoples collective identities and action.

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