An international and inter-disciplinary roster of experts shed light by exploring such topics as hip hop culture punk culture social justice movements video games political activism language and identity post-feminism television rites of passage heterosexuality and homosexuality race and ethnicity social class poetry and literature visual art conceptions of beauty and body image academics sports drugs families refugee youth the Internet youth journalism fashion and violence. An increasingly smaller world impinges mightily on the culture of youth. While developmental psychologists refined their theories of normal growth and maturation, society and the media were at work constructing youth as consumers,thereby liberating them from traditional family controls. The changes wrought worldwide by World War II, propelled adolescence to a status and identity that coincided with unparalleled economic growth. Youth as a unique group is a 20th century idea.
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