What are the components of youth cultures today? This encyclopedia
examines the facets of youth cultures and brings them to the
forefront. Although issues of youth culture are frequently cited in
classrooms and public forums, most encyclopedias of childhood and
youth are devoted to history, human development, and society. A
limitation on the reference bookshelf is the restriction of youth
to pre-adolescence, although issues of youth continue into young
adulthood. This encyclopedia addresses an academic audience of
professors and students in childhood studies, American studies, and
culture studies. The authors span disciplines of psychology,
sociology, anthropology, history, and folklore. The Encyclopedia of
Youth Cultures in America addresses a need for historical, social,
and cultural information on a wide array of youth groups. Such a
reference work serves as a corrective to the narrow public view
that young people are part of an amalgamated youth group or occupy
malicious gangs and satanic cults. Widespread reports of bullying,
school violence, dominance of athletics over academics, and
changing demographics in the United States has drawn renewed
attention to the changing cultural landscape of youth in and out of
school to explain social and psychological problems. Offers
information on groups beyond the gangs the public associates with
youth culture, providing definitions of suburban youth culture,
survivalists and preppers, the deaf, skateboarders, Gen X,
soldiers, and street kids, among others Provides coverage of the
expressive genres of American youth and the way they have shaped
public tastes and trends, such as music, dance, fashion, tattooing,
body piercing, social media, and more Features an exploration of
life issues for youth that have entered into the headlines-for
example, bullying, cliques, rites of passage, student protest and
activism, child abuse, and drugs
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