The Origins of Postmodern Youth - Informal Youth Movements in a Comparative Perspective (Hardcover, Reprint 2015)

The 20th century shows an essential change in young people's behaviour from Wandervogel, Boy Scouts and Komsomol to student rebellion, hippie, rock and pop, and techno cultures. These cultures show a new code of behaviour - a code of informality based on principles of symmetry, moratorium and modularity. The informal youth cultures develop as an attempt to respond to rapid social change and complexity by constructing an open order that can flexibly adjust to postmodern chaotic conditions. Based on empirical analyses of classical youth movements as harbingers of the code of informality, and of the recent example of Israeli youth movements, this study uses the above conceptual framework to explain the variety of youth behaviour in authentic rather than generational or conflictual terms. It sheds new light on youth movements and more recent expressions of youth in the same universe of informal youth structures. These informal structures institutionalize both youth authenticity and relation to adult society, constructing a context in which freedom and discipline coexist.

General

Imprint:	De Gruyter
Country of origin:	Germany
Series:	International Studies on Childhood & Adolescence
Release date:	July 1997
First published:	1997
Authors:	Reuven Kahane
Contributors:	Tamara Rapoport
Dimensions:	240 x 170mm (L x W)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	280
Edition:	Reprint 2015
ISBN-13:	978-3-11-015432-0
Categories:	Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Interdisciplinary studies > Cultural studies > General Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social groups & communities > Age groups > Children Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social groups & communities > Age groups > Adolescents Promotions
LSN:	3-11-015432-3
Barcode:	9783110154320

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