Youth culture
- Created by: SabaMasood
- Created on: 22-05-14 03:15
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- Youth culture
- Emergence of youth culture:
- Earning potential: A state with nearly full employment
- Changes in upbringing: too young to remember the struggles of the war and the affluent society meant teenagers no longer had to pay for their own expenses
- Greater leisure time: technology provided more time for leisure such as shopping and music
- Education: The 1944 Butlers Act made secondary school compulsory = higher aspirations and greater money when working
- New youth culture: greater sexual freedom (contraceptive pill) Embracing of drugs (hippies) and increased involvement in politics (sit-ins as a result of nuclear weaponry)
- Fashion: 50% of all women's clothing was sold to those under 18, 2,000 boutiques in London only and employed over 30,000 people.
- What increase in fashion shows: affluent society, assertiveness of teenagers, changing roles of women, lack of sexual inhibition and developments in science (PVC)
- Drug culture was as a result of the emergence of youth culture: Music a key element in youth made drug use the norm (hippies) such as the Beatles and Rolling stones
- Emergence of youth culture:
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