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Tiongson, Antonio T. "Filipino youth cultural politics and DJ culture." Connect to a 24 p. preview or request complete full text in PDF format. Access restricted to UC campuses, 2006. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/ucsd/fullcit?p3199265.
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Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of California, San Diego, 2006.Title from first page of PDF file (viewed February 28, 2006). Available via ProQuest Digital Dissertations. Vita. Includes bibliographical references (p. 206-220).
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Henderson, Scott. "Youth on film, youth in culture : liminality, identity and the construction of cultural spaces." Thesis, University of East Anglia, 2007. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.502006.
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This thesis addresses the representation of youth in film and popular culture, with specific attention given to the articulation of youth agency or subjectivity. The concept of 'youth' as a cultural group is separate from (but related to) any notions of youth as biological category. Representations of youth, and popular texts aimed at a youth audience, are common within popular culture, as 'youth' is perceived to be a desirable target market with an excess of disposable income. At the same time, youth rarely possess the means of constructing their own cultural representations, so that they are spoken for rather than being able to have an authentic voice within culture.
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Nordström, Stina. "YC - Centre for Youth Culture." Thesis, Umeå universitet, Arkitekthögskolan vid Umeå universitet, 2017. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-135449.
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Li, Chuang (Austin). "China's skateboarding youth culture as an emerging cultural industry." Thesis, Loughborough University, 2018. https://dspace.lboro.ac.uk/2134/34372.
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This thesis focuses on the skateboarding industry in China as both a youth subculture and a cultural industry. I am investigating the transition between the two and examining how the emerging skateboarding industry operates through detailed analysis of the feelings, motivations and meanings attributed to it by its participants and the emerging strata of cultural workers. In order to achieve this research objective, this thesis has positioned the analysis in a triangle of forces between the development of Chinese skateboarding culture, the emerging skateboarding cultural industry and government interventions. This ethnographic study takes into account distinctive characters in the development of Chinese skateboarding communities that signify continuities inside contemporary Chinese youth cultures. I argue that such continuity is still embedded in the organisation of the Chinese skateboarding industry as a cultural industry, in both subcultural and corporate entrepreneurial practices. Moreover, this thesis contributes to ongoing discussions in the field of not only cultural studies but also of the political economic analysis of cultural/creative industries by examining the dynamic incorporations at play between the commercial and governmental forces at the centre of current debate around the inclusion of skateboarding in the Olympic Games, and the consequences of the sportisation of skateboarding in mainstream economic structures. Last but not least, this research captures the working conditions of the cultural labourers who are at the forefront of shaping and reshaping the Chinese skateboarding industry.
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Luke, Anne. "Youth culture and the politics of youth in 1960s Cuba." Thesis, University of Wolverhampton, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/2436/20492.
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The triple coordinates of youth, the Sixties and the Cuban Revolution interact to create a rich but relatively unexplored field of historical research. Previous studies of youth in Cuba have assumed a separation between young people and the Revolution, and either objectify young people as units that could be mobilized by the Revolution, or look at how young people deviated from the perceived dominant ideology of the Revolution. This study contends that, rather than being passive in the face of social and material change, young people in 1960s Cuba were active agents in that change, and played a role in defining what the Revolution was and could become. The model built here to understand young people in 1960s Cuba is based on identity theory, contending that youth identity was built at the point where young people experienced – and were responsible for forging – an emerging dominant culture of youth. The latter entered Cuban consciousness and became, over the course of the 1960s, a part of the dominant national-revolutionary identity. It was determined by three factors: firstly, leadership discourse, which laid out the view of what youth could, should or must be within the Revolution, and also helped to forge a direct relationship between the Revolution and young people; secondly, policy initiatives which linked all youth-related policy to education, therefore linking policy to the radical national tradition stemming from Martí; and thirdly, influence from outside Cuba and the ways in which external youth movements and youth cultures interplayed with Cuban culture. Through these three, youth was in the ascendancy, but, where young people challenged the positive picture of youth, moral panics ensued. Young people were neither inherent saints nor accidental sinners in Cuba in the 1960s, and sought multiple ways in which to express themselves. Firstly, they played their role as activists through the youth organisations, the AJR and the UJC. These young people were at the cutting edge of the canonised vision of youth, and consequently felt burdened by a failure to live up to such an ideal. Secondly, through massive voluntary participation in building the Revolution, through the Literacy Campaign, the militias and the aficionados groups, many young people in the 1960s internalised the Revolution and developed a revolutionary consciousness that defines their generation today. Finally, at the margin of the definition of what was considered revolutionary sat young cultural producers – those associated with El Puente, Caimán Barbudo and the Nueva Trova, and their audience – who attempted to define and redefine what it meant to be young and revolutionary. These groups all fed the culture of youth, and through them we can start to understand the uncertainties of being young, revolutionary and Cuban in this effervescent and convulsive decade.
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Jones, Simon. "White youth and Jamaican popular culture." Thesis, University of Birmingham, 1986. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.391512.
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Stinson, Madonna Therese. "Youth theatre : incorporating art and culture." Thesis, Queensland University of Technology, 1995. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/35857/1/35857_Stinson_1995.pdf.
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The study analyses the relationship between popular
culture and youth theatre. The first part is a review of
selected Australian Youth Theatre playtexts. Following
chapters provide a background of contemporary thought
regarding popular culture and specify aspects of youth
culture highlighted in the selected texts. A case study
documents the playmaking project undertaken with a
Brisbane Youth Theatre company that resulted in the youth
theatre production of This Fine Line. The playtext of
This Fine Line is included in the study.
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Sanders, William Spencer. "Our manor : youth crime and youth culture in the inner city." Thesis, Goldsmiths College (University of London), 2004. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.407421.
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Little, Christopher William Richard. "A different youth culture? : chav culture in britain 2003-2010." Thesis, Manchester Metropolitan University, 2011. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.534421.
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This thesis will examine the `Chav' subculture in order to establish a new contribution to subcultural critical theory. It will also establish the cultural shift when `Chav' was created. As a prominent British stereotype since 2003, Chavs have received a limited amount of discussion within academia and this thesis will address this issue. While this lack of academic coverage leaves much of the pertinent theoretical ground untraced, it also provides an academic niche within which 1 can work. Using a multi-disciplinary methodology this thesis will examine Chavs through both its discursive representations and its lived identity structures. The first six chapters cover a literature review and then the discursive fields of language, social policy, mass media representations, public space and subcultural style. The next two chapters look at the lived social structures of class and masculinity, and race and ethnicity. The thesis concludes with the exploration of a new theoretical model for youth formations. This model is based upon a cyclical system that perpetually repeats itself through stages of publically defining an inherent lack, public crystallisation of these lacks, demarcation of these discourses upon the subject and public castigation for bearing these signifiers of lack. The theoretical model created in this thesis has far reaching implications in my field of study due to its closed nature- the cycle continually repeats itself, adding new demarcations of exclusion upon each repetition. This cyclical theoretical system could be applied to another social group as it is dependent upon which types of capital- social, cultural or otherwise -are defined at that moment in time as `wrong'. Consequently, the theoretical framework developed throughout this thesis could represent a significant contribution to the field of critical theory.
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Shildrick, Tracy Anne. "'Spectaculars', 'trackers' and 'ordinary' youth : youth culture, illicit drugs and social class." Thesis, Teesside University, 2003. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.411192.
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Bugge, Christian Stewart. "The end of youth subculture? : dance culture and youth marketing 1988-2000." Thesis, Kingston University, 2002. http://eprints.kingston.ac.uk/20694/.
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This thesis focuses on the concept of youth Subculture, used in both academic and popular discourse to describe a distinct form of youth culture. The thesis focuses on Dance Culture, the dominant youth culture in Britain during the period 1988-1990, but also a unique form of youth culture that challenges previous theories of youth culture, and questions whether youth cultures are organically formed or commercially created. The thesis establishes how the marketing industry has become increasingly adept at understanding and responding to the cultural aspect of young peoples' lives since the youth market was first identified in the late 1950s. The commercial importance of rebellious youth cultures was first established in the 1960s. However, it took the market-driven economy of the 1980s, in which a more style-orientated advertising practice developed, to draw on the style-factor that youth cultures evoke. Due, in particular, to increases in the number of youth-oriented media in the 1980s and 1990s marketing has developed its ability to reach youthful consumers. As a result, it has come to focus on individual youth cultures, re-presenting them to consumers who seek the cultural capital they possess. The central focus is 'youth marketing', an industry which thrived in the knowledge-based New Economy of the 1990s. Interviews .with experts in 'youth marketing' show how marketing interacted with the Dance Culture and its consistent subcultures. It shows, where previous studies of youth Subculture have failed, the crucial role that consumerism, and more specifically marketing, plays in the formation and communication of youth cultures. Marketers have increasingly come to recognise the cultural capital of Subcultures, and have become more influential in the way that they are communicated and adopted by young people. As a consequence, the thesis argues that Youth Subculture is now a concept more readily employed for selling lifestyles to consumers, as opposed to a reliable model for understanding young peoples' culture. Rather than expressions of genuine resistance, youth cultures are, now more accurately viewed as reference points in consumer trends. Previous studies of advertising and marketing have been based on abstract research methodologies, such as textual analysis. This research is unique in interviewing the practitioners who attempt to understand and re-present young people's culture. In this way, it presents a more accurate and grounded analysis of marketing's interaction and comprehension of young people, and also its subsequent attempts to have meaning in their cultural lives.
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Martin, Kendra K. "Portraits of street corner culture." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1997. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/ftp04/mq23155.pdf.
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Lindell, Johan. "Japanization? - Japanese Popular Culture among Swedish Youth." Thesis, Karlstads universitet, Fakulteten för ekonomi, kommunikation och IT, 2008. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kau:diva-3861.
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Japanese presence on the global cultural market has steadily been increasing throughout the last decades. Fan-communities all over the world are celebrating the Japanese culture and cultural identity no longer seems bound to the local. This thesis is an empirical study which aims to examine the transnational flow of Japanese popular culture into Sweden. The author addresses the issue with three research questions; what unique dimensions could be ascribed to Swedish anime-fandom, what is appealing about Japanese popular culture and how is it influencing fan-audiences? To enable deeper understanding of the phenomenon, a qualitative research consisting of semi-structured telephone-interviews and questionnaires, was conducted with Swedish fans of Japanese popular culture. The results presented in this thesis indicate that the anime-community in Sweden possesses several unique dimensions, both in activities surrounding Japanese popular culture and consumption and habits. Japanese popular culture fills a void that seems to exist in domestic culture. It is different, and that is what is appealing to most fans. Anime and manga have inspired fans to learn about the Japanese culture, in some cases, Japanese popular culture has in a way “japanized” fans – making them wish they were born in Japan.
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Micucci, Brittany. "The Impact of 'Sexting' on Youth Culture." UOIT, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10155/48.
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Krueger, Britt. "Youth and Technology: The risks youth take when using modern Technology." UOIT, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10155/46.
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Quinlan, Christine. "The Harmful Effects of Cyber Culture on Youth." UOIT, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10155/52.
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Kochan, Brian J. "Youth Culture and Identity: A Phenomenology of Hardcore." Fogler Library, University of Maine, 2006. http://www.library.umaine.edu/theses/pdf/KochanBJ2006.pdf.
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Borrie, Lee Adam. ""Wild Ones: Containment Culture and 1950s Youth Rebellion"." Thesis, University of Canterbury. American Studies, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/10092/1003.
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My study seeks to fill a void in Cold War historiography by situating the emergence of 1950s youth culture in the context of containment culture, evaluating the form and extent of youth's cultural 'rebellion'. The pervasive cultural discourse of 'containment', which operated as both a foreign policy to restrict the Soviet Union's sphere of influence and a domestic policy to stifle political dissent, mandated that America propagate an image of social harmony and political plurality during the early years of the Cold War. Yet the emergence of a rebellious youth culture in the middle of the 1950s challenges the notion that America was a 'consensus society' and exposes the limitations and fissures of the white middle class hegemony that the containment narrative worked to legitimate. In examining the rise of rock n roll, the emergence of the drive-in theatre as a "teen space," and the significance of "style" to the galvanization of 1950s youth culture, this study examines the ways in which youth culture of the period variously negotiated, resisted, and accommodated containment culture.
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Leyshon, Michael. "Youth identity, culture and marginalisation in the countryside." Thesis, University of Exeter, 2002. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.251155.
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Collins, Hannah Lee. "Chilean Youth Culture in the Age of Globalization." Diss., The University of Arizona, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/612552.
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Drawing from a cultural studies perspective, this dissertation examines digital, visual, and idiomatic expressions and platforms that both create and inform youth culture in Chile. In what ways have globalized media trends influenced cultural production, class-consciousness, and identity formation in Chilean youth culture, and how do these expressions mirror a global neoliberal agenda and shed light on a history of economic, political, and religious globalization in Chile? In order to answer these questions, this dissertation provides an interdisciplinary approach to evaluate changing media trends in Latin American youth culture. I argue that cultural influence of the United States and the rise of global neoliberalism have informed the production, reception, dissemination, and identity formation of this segment of Chilean society. This dissertation is organized into four chapters. Chapter 1 provides a historical contextualization of political and economic changes in Chile as well as the literature review and theoretical foundation for my analysis. Chapter 2 contends that the class-consciousness spectrum in Chilean television and film works as a reflection of consumption behavior and identity formation in youth that has been informed by a U.S. neoliberal agenda. Chapter 3 studies one particular young Chilean, Germán Garmendia, and his popular YouTube channel, "Hola Soy German," to argue that the spreadable and invisible factors that inform his global success as a grassroots, "latino" vlogger can be traced to U.S. digital commercialism. And lastly, Chapter 4 highlights digital texts of the student organization, "Chile Siempre," and their stylized performance of moral values through mediatized and digitalized spaces in order to reveal U.S. religious and cultural interventionism through evangelical missionaries in Chile. The triangulation and interdisciplinary approach of these texts expose a consistent history of political, economic, and religious transculturation and calls into question U.S. cultural influence in Chile that continues, while not overtly, to manifest in new media forms.
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Glaser, Clive L. "Youth culture and politics in Soweto, 1958-1976." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 1994. https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/272663.
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Lette, Helen Margaret. "Lakon: Tropes and performances in Javanese youth culture." Thesis, Lette, Helen Margaret (1996) Lakon: Tropes and performances in Javanese youth culture. PhD thesis, Murdoch University, 1996. https://researchrepository.murdoch.edu.au/id/eprint/50630/.
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This thesis uses ethnographic research and interrogation of a number of discourses and tropes to examine the street-side performances of a group of young male kampung-dwellers in a part of urban Yogyakarta I call Kusuman. These young men, who refer to their group as the cah-cah (lads) are located between the socially defined roles of uncircumcised children and married heads of households, and have an ambiguous status in their communities. Among other lads in the same liminal phase they act out a series of personas in an attempt to construct meaningful identities. Their performances are re-iterations or re-interpretations of tropes to which they are exposed. The Javaneseness of wayang, elaborate politeness codes and stratified language, the Indonesianness of Pancasila, mutual help and military parades, and a Javanised mystical version of Islam form a background to their knowledge of self and society. These idioms also offer scope for playing out resistant readings, through reversal and caricature, as do the mystical martial-arts comics they devour and the trickster heroes of their folk mythology. Tourism is a major cultural and economic influence on Kusuman, and their repertoire of tropes is expanded by the performances of the "wild guides", English-speaking opportunists who seek sex, money and to "change their thinking with a western woman" among the many tourists passing through Kusuman.
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Kenny, Sarah. "Unspectacular youth? : evening leisure space and youth culture in Sheffield, c.1960-c.1989." Thesis, University of Sheffield, 2017. http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/19439/.
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This thesis is a sustained look at ordinary young people’s leisure patterns and changing lifestyles in Sheffield between 1960 and 1989. It argues that the post-war period witnessed dramatic and significant changes in the types of leisure opportunities available to young people and, correspondingly, to their lifestyles and patterns of consumption in the leisure; this is particularly the case for young women. This thesis examines the intricacies of young people’s engagement with youth culture, where they socialised, and how they socialised, with a level of detail not afforded by national studies of youth culture. It argues that understanding the development and impact of regulatory practices with regards to evening leisure space is essential to understanding the leisure choices of young people. By charting and examining the impact of Sheffield’s licensing magistrates and other local authorities, this thesis demonstrates how heavily young people’s access to evening leisure space was mediated and controlled by authoritative bodies, and how it was influenced by wider societal concerns about young people’s drinking, sexuality, and morality. Ultimately, it argues that the development of evening leisure space forms a central, and often overlooked, part of young people’s engagement with youth culture. Centring on young people’s use of evening leisure space, this thesis argues that there were many ways of engaging with youth culture, influenced by factors including access to disposable income, social groupings, and parental tolerance. It posits that personal cultural interests such as music and fashion tastes, while an important part of identity curation and presentation of the self, were only one set of a wider series of factors shaping how young people engaged with consumption in the leisure sphere. As such, this thesis argues that a close-focus study such as this offers important insights into the lived experience of ordinary young people in post-war Britain.
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Pontes, CÃcera de Andrade. "Hope you live? A study of youth cultures in Jangurussu: the girls rap and Boys and Girls." Universidade Federal do CearÃ, 2013. http://www.teses.ufc.br/tde_busca/arquivo.php?codArquivo=10629.
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CoordenaÃÃo de AperfeiÃoamento de Pessoal de NÃvel SuperiorO trabalho teve como objetivo analisar as experiÃncias potencializadoras desenvolvidas pelos jovens e as jovens participantes dos grupos Meninas do Rap e Meninos e Meninas de Deus, do bairro Jangurussu, a partir de uma reflexÃo sobre os saberes e prÃticas no interior das culturas juvenis que nele fazem reverberar. Interessou-nos investigar em quais espaÃos cotidianos estariam ancorados os canais de potÃncia, criatividade e expressÃo dessas juventudes em face a uma realidade de violÃncia e exclusÃo social. Utilizou-se o mÃtodo etnogrÃfico com elementos prÃximos a uma cartografia, na qual o aspecto relacional entre pesquisadora e âobjetos de pesquisaâ sÃo levados em conta, a partir de um caminho investigativo que primou pela observaÃÃo participante no prÃprio cotidiano das juventudes. Para fins de investigaÃÃo analisou-se a narrativa de dezoito jovens, sendo seis de cada grupo cultural pesquisado, alÃm do contato com moradores e moradoras do bairro Jangurussu. Como resultados analisou-se as dimensÃes educativa, cultural, afetiva e socializadora como instÃncias capazes de fomentar resistÃncias e produÃÃes de sentido restituidoras do sonho e da esperanÃa, e fortalecedoras da cultura juvenil do Jangurussu. Aspectos como o trabalho, a escola e a famÃlia sÃo avaliados como importantes, funcionando como palcos de tensÃes e rupturas. O grupo se traduziu como potÃncia de reorganizaÃÃo simbÃlica â interna e externa â com notada influÃncia de uma socialidade com base nos afetos, na solidariedade, na amizade, ludicidade, no diÃlogo e acolhimento das diferenÃas. Percebeu-se uma aÃÃo educativa com forte elementos de uma auto formaÃÃo, com relevantes implicaÃÃes do ponto de vista de gÃnero, sinalizando para o surgimento de novas feminilidades e a criaÃÃo de um corpo ressignificado, bem como novas redes de interaÃÃo com o outro e com o bairro. No Ãmbito da cultura, comparecem prÃticas concretas formativas, tais como o futebol e o rap, demonstrando que os movimentos de experiÃncia de si, se conectam e sÃo fortalecidas por um trajeto educacional claro onde se plantam devires sociais a partir da formaÃÃo dos sujeitos.
This study aimed to analyze the experiences of empowerment developed by young people that take part in the groups: Meninas do Rap (Rap Girls) and Meninos e Meninas de Deus (Boys and Girls of God), from Jangurussu neighborhood with a reflection on the knowledge and practices within the youth culture that make reverberate in it. We used the ethnographic method with elements coming from a cartography, in which the relational aspect between researcher and "research subjects" are taken into account, from an investigative way that has excelled by a participant observation in the youths quotidian. For purposes of research we analyzed the narrative of eighteen youngs, six of each cultural group studied, in addition to contact with residents of the Jangurussu neighborhood. As results, we analyzed the educational, cultural, emotional and socializing dimensions as instances able to foster resistance and productions of meaning, to rescue the dream and hope, and empowering the youth culture in Jangurussu. As results we analyzed the dimensions educational, cultural, emotional and socializing as instances able to foster resistance and productions sense of dream and hope, and empowering the youth culture of Jangurussu. Aspects such as work, school and family are assessed as important, working as stage tensions and ruptures. The group is translated as power symbolic reorganization â internal and external â with noticeable influence of sociality based on affection, solidarity, friendship, playfulness, dialogue and acceptance of diferrences. This is an educational activity with strong elements a self training, with relevant implications in terms of gender, signaling the emergence of new femininities and the creation of a body reframed and new networks of interaction with each other and with the cultural bairro. Culture Under attend specific training practices, such as football and rap, demonstrating that the motions of experience itself, connect and are strengthened by a clear educational path where social becomings plant from the formation of the subject.
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Ota, Satoshi. "The ambiguous lightness of being : Taiwanese youth, identity, and the consumption of Japanese youth culture." Thesis, SOAS, University of London, 2006. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.427843.
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Hayes, Martin. "Global and transnational flows and local Cree youth culture." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1998. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/ftp01/MQ39452.pdf.
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Yung, Lai-fong Edith, and 容麗芳. "Popular culture and deviant youth behaviour in Hong Kong." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 1998. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B31978800.
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Yung, Lai-fong Edith. "Popular culture and deviant youth behaviour in Hong Kong." Hong Kong : University of Hong Kong, 1998. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record.jsp?B20622296.
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Forrester, Linda, of Western Sydney Nepean University, and Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences. "Youth generated cultures in Western Sydney." THESIS_FHSS_XXX_Forrester_L.xml, 1993. http://handle.uws.edu.au:8081/1959.7/440.
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The study focuses on the types of cultural practice that are, in the main, generated by the young people themselves (hereafter referred to as youth generated cultures) who fall within the age group of 14-20 yrs of age. The research was undertaken in the Western Sydney region, which is the largest expanding population in Australia, and is regularly defined as a socio-economically disadvantaged region, therefore, an important factor within this study is the issue of class determinants. The paper explores the youth generated cultural practice of graffiti, skateboarding, street machining, and street dancing. These creative practices challenge traditional notions of culture and the arts, however the young people also employ strategies of an aesthetic nature in their creative process. Youth generated cultures are actively engaged in criticism through the use of instrumentalist aesthetics such as Monroe Beardsley describes. The thesis proposes that youth generated cultures have, in a united and structured manner, provided for themselves a framework of economic and pedagogical support that has afforded them a place within the cultural mainstream without the recognition or approval of mainstream cultural establishments. It is argued that these particular youth generated cultures are not rebellious or destructive subcultures, that they are creative in nature and have been established primarily to produce and display their creative cultures. Youth agency is essential to the character of these youth generated cultures and it is this agency that is under challenge from the cultural hegemony. The young people involved in youth generated cultures demand that any account of their cultural practice must also accept the agency of youth as fundamental to their cultural status.Master of Arts (Hons) (Art History and Theory)
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Junior, Cyro Irany Chaim. "Cultura corporal juvenil da periferia paulistana: subsídios para construção de um currículo de educação física." Universidade de São Paulo, 2007. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/48/48134/tde-11062008-160539/.
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A juventude tem representado, e carrega implicitamente, uma expectativa e sentimentos de renovação. É a partir do olhar individualista e das grandes mudanças históricas e sociais engatilhadas pela modernidade que as atenções se voltaram para as gerações mais novas atribuindo-lhes tanto o significado de fase preparatória quanto de continuidade da vida. Esta idéia de \"vir-a-ser\" projeta sua função para o futuro e estabelece as culturas de um determinado mundo adulto como dignas de alcance. Desta forma, as culturas juvenis, que em alguma medida buscam espaços de expressão própria, por isso mesmo, têm sido caracterizadas como rebeldes e transgressoras. Tais adjetivações comumente fundamentam-se em explicações biológicas e deterministas. Atualmente, por conta da nova configuração global que organiza a sociedade, a aproximação de culturas diferentes tornou-se inevitável, criando assim espaços de lutas entre a cultura hegemônica e a cultura até então alheia aos espaços e instituições de domínio público, das quais se destaca a escola. Assim, o foco deste estudo recaiu no reconhecimento dos saberes dos diversos grupos sociais que recentemente adentraram à escola e que, historicamente, têm assistido a negligência curricular do seu patrimônio cultural corporal, embora, como se constatou, isso não ocorra de forma passiva, silenciosa e sem conflito. Para tanto, foi desenvolvida uma pesquisa de cunho qualitativo de tipo etnográfico que visou identificar, por meio de questionamentos a grupo focal, o repertório cultural corporal juvenil pertencente a um grupo socialmente desprivilegiado tomando-se como referência o critério econômico. O material coletado foi confrontado com a construção teórica advinda da teorização cultural. O reconhecimento e análise do patrimônio corporal desse grupo social nos permitiram a apresentação de alguns encaminhamentos para a construção de uma proposta curricular de Educação Física na perspectiva sociocultural.Youth has represented, and implicitly carries, an expectation and feelings of renewal. It is through the individualistic view and the great historical and social changes triggered by modernity that attention turned to the younger generations attributing the meaning of the preparatory phase in relation to the continuity of life to them. This idea of \"to become\" projects the function of youth to the future and establishes the cultures of a certain adult world as worthy of being achieved. This way, the youth cultures that in some way search for means of self-expression, and for that reason have been characterized as rebels and transgressors. These adjectives usually are based on biological and deterministic explanations. Currently, due to the new global configuration that organizes the society, an approach of different cultures has become inevitable, creating therefore space for conflicts between the hegemonic culture and the culture which until now was unaware of the spaces and institutions of public domain, of which the school is in the highlight. This way, the focus of this study came under the scrutiny and recognition of the knowledge of several social groups who recently entered the school, and that historically, have observed the neglect of its corporal cultural patrimony in the curriculum, even though, as noted, this does not occur in a passive way, silently and without conflict. Therefore, a qualitative research of ethnographic type, was developed which intended to identify the youth\'s corporal cultural repertoire belonging to a socially unprivileged group, through questioning of a focal group, using the economic criterion as a reference. The material collected was confronted with the theoretical construction originated from the cultural theory. The recognition and analysis of the corporal patrimony of this social group allowed us to present some follow-ups for the construction of a Physical Education curricular proposal in a social and cultural perspective.
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Yan, Miu Chung. "The coping strategy of unemployed Vietnamese Chinese youth the influence of culture on coping /." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1997. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/tape15/PQDD_0032/MQ27393.pdf.
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Yeung, Law Koon-chui Agnes. "Intergroup relationships and the political orientation of Chinese youth /." Hong Kong : University of Hong Kong, 1996. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record.jsp?B1745718X.
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PEDROSA, Tábata De Lima. "A dimensão política do coco e a participação da juventude no portão gelo e Guadalupe." Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, 2015. https://repositorio.ufpe.br/handle/123456789/18407.
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O objetivo deste trabalho é compreender nas ações do Coco da Xambá (Bongar e Coco do Miudinho) e do Grupo Cultural Coco de Umbigada a articulação político-cultural de demandas materiais e simbólicas de jovens dessas comunidades. As comunidades pesquisadas foram Portão do Gelo e Guadalupe respectivamente, ambas no município de Olinda - PE. A metodologia deste trabalho fundamentou-se numa abordagem qualitativa. Além disso, a pesquisa apresenta inspiração etnográfica, o que permitiu o acompanhamento de atividades promovidas pelos grupos de coco, bem como a elaboração de relatórios de observação. No que diz respeito ao procedimento de análise das informações, foi utilizada a Análise Crítica do Discurso, a qual tem como preocupação central as relações de poder e o que há de dominação e insurgência nelas. Os resultados apontam que a inserção em grupos de coco possibilita aos jovens geração de renda, a partir do desenvolvimento de habilidades que são funcionais ao mercado de trabalho, permitindo o acesso a ele, mesmo que de forma precária. Do ponto de vista do campo simbólico, a participação desses jovens no coco permite a elaboração de estratégias de superação de discriminações e preconceitos, através da afirmação da identidade, o que mobiliza ações coletivas.
Understanding the political and cultural articulation of young people’s material and symbolic demands in two communities, Coco Xambá (Bongar and Coco Miudinho) and Grupo Cultural Coco de Umbigada, is the aim of this study. The surveyed communities were Portão do Gelo and Guadalupe, both in the city of Olinda - PE. The methodology of this study was based on a qualitative approach with ethnographic inspiration, which enabled the researcher to monitor activities promoted by coco groups, as well as the preparation of observation reports. Regarding to analysis procedure’s information, we used the Critical Discourse Analysis, which has as its central concern power relations and their domination and insurgency. The results show that the inclusion in coco groups provide income generation to the young participants developing skills that are functional to the labor market, allowing their access to it, even if precariously. From the symbolic point of view, the participation of these young people in coco allows them to overcome discrimination and prejudice, through the affirmation of identity, which mobilizes collective action.
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Hoechsmann, Michael. "Consuming school in the 90s, youth, popular culture and education." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1998. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/tape15/PQDD_0009/NQ35187.pdf.
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Barbosa, Francisco J. "Insurgent youth culture and memory in the Sandinista student movement /." [Bloomington, Ind.] : Indiana University, 2006. http://gateway.proquest.com/openurl?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:dissertation&res_dat=xri:pqdiss&rft_dat=xri:pqdiss:3215180.
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Thesis (Ph.D.)--Indiana University, Dept. of History, 2006.Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 67-04, Section: A, page: 1490. Adviser: Jeffrey L. Gould. "Title from dissertation home page (viewed May 7, 2007)."
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Willard, Michael Nevin. "Urbanization as culture : youth and race in postwar Los Angeles /." Diss., ON-CAMPUS Access For University of Minnesota, Twin Cities Click on "Connect to Digital Dissertations", 2001. http://www.lib.umn.edu/articles/proquest.phtml.
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Huq, Rupa. "Too much too young : British youth culture in the 1990s." Thesis, University of East London, 1999. http://roar.uel.ac.uk/1287/.
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The study of youth culture in Britain, after a fertile period in the 1 970s, underwent a fallow stretch in the 1980s. By the 1990s it was being claimed from some quarters that youth culture had ceased to exist. This thesis presents the results of a study of various aspects of contemporary youth culture undertaken in Britain and France with the mixed methodologies of textual secondary source analysis, ethnographic participant observation, semi-structured interviewing and quantitative survey techniques. The central aim was to determine whether and in what forms youth culture exists in contemporary times and to redress some of the earlier imbalances in research on this subject in doing so. There are nine main findings. The first three are concerned with matters of theory and method, the remainder with the empirical work presented in the thesis: 1. It is more useful to draw on several theoretical approaches rather than constrict oneself to singular explanations of 'grand theory.' 2. Furthermore, 'theory' alone is not enough: ethnography is a key instrument for examining youth culture. 3. The exclusively class-based explanations offered by existing British subcultural studies are increasingly untenable given the transient, non-linear youth cultural forms of today. 4. Second generation hybridic British Asian youth cultures, long ignored by subculturalists, are a crucial expanding area. 5. Youth are not simply an 'urban species'; a rich under-researched suburban youth culture also exists, and is worthy of serious study. 6. Our considerations of youth culture should look beyond British shores to parallels with other countries, with whom British youth have many similarities. The expressive postcolonial cultures of French youth are one example, through which we can see both parallels with the British experience, and that there is some evidence for an emergent 'pan European youth culture'. 7. The above developments unfold despite governments' attempts at preserving 'national culture.' 8. Pop music can no longer be seen as a synonym for youth culture. 9. Reports of youth culture's death have been greatly exaggerated. It may not exist as previously conceptualised but it is taking on multiple, shifting meanings in an ageing world.
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Herding, Maruta. "Inventing the Muslim cool : Islamic youth culture in Western Europe." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2012. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.610115.
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Paris, Django. ""Our culture" : difference, division, and unity in multiethnic youth space /." May be available electronically:, 2008. http://proquest.umi.com/login?COPT=REJTPTU1MTUmSU5UPTAmVkVSPTI=&clientId=12498.
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Fuglesang, Minou. "Veils and videos : female youth culture on the Kenyan coast." Doctoral thesis, Stockholms universitet, Socialantropologiska institutionen, 1994. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-99659.
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Ryan, Mary Elizabeth. "Critical Pedagogy and Youth: Accounts of Enactment in Multiliterate Culture." Thesis, Griffith University, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/10072/365869.
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Curriculum and policy documents in Australia, and specifically Queensland, are underpinned by a socially critical agenda which foregrounds the principles of active participation and social justice. The implementation of these curricula requires teachers to employ the methods and approaches of critical pedagogy. What is in question is the capacity of such pedagogical and curriculum approaches to be genuinely transformative such that young people lead lives where social justice and social betterment are paramount. This study seeks to understand the extent to which young people are prepared to invest in such principles when they are part of a choice generation, with its focus on lifestyle and consumerism.
The study focuses on the accounts of a group of high school students for whom emancipation is not a key issue. These accounts are contextualised within the broader social discourses that influence the choices made by these young people. The discourse worlds that are evident in their accounts include youth culture, schooling and broader society. These discourse worlds have been captured as instances by using the participants’ multimodal texts as prompts for learning conversations, semi-structured interviews and focus group interviews. They have been interpreted within a (critical) poststructuralist framework, whereby the transformative possibilities of critical theory could be utilised, viewed through a poststructural lens. The key analytical foci involve the processes of subjectification, and the role of power and hegemony in the heteroglossic lives of these young people.
The data were analysed using an approach that is informed by the tradition of critical discourse analysis (CDA). This is a multidisciplinary approach that enables critical engagement with questions of power and subjectivity, while at the same time paying close attention to the specificity of text.
The study illuminates the negotiations of these young people as they traverse the complex terrain of their worlds which comprise competing and contradictory discourses of youth, schooling and society. The visual metaphor of a kaleidoscope has been used to (re)present the multifarious nature of both the study itself, and the worlds of the youth participants.
The findings from this study indicate that these young people show evidence of achieving the socially critical outcomes which are embedded in their school programs. However, their accounts show little evidence of transforming such outcomes into everyday practices or performances of emancipatory participation. Contradictions in the discourses of schooling have been made visible through the findings in this study. It is concluded that even though schools (as illustrated at the site of this study) may underpin their curriculum with the ideals of active participation for social change; other more potent neo-liberal discourses negate such ideals in the enactment of such programs.Thesis (PhD Doctorate)
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Roussou, Nayia. "Television and the cultural identity of Cyprus youth." Thesis, Coventry University, 2001. http://curve.coventry.ac.uk/open/items/2be4ef68-0b65-78c1-9fe8-3e42e4285e06/1.
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The present thesis was begun in October 1996, with the aim of exploring the relationship between Cyprus television and aspects of the national and cultural identity of Cyprus youth. The thesis consists of seven chapters in all, which can be summarized as follows: In the first chapter, a survey of the historical, political and media realities in Cyprus establishes the ground for the present study, while in the second chapter, a literature review presents the writings on culture and identity, media theories and their development, with a discussion of important theoretical concepts and perspectives, like Cultural Studies, identity theory, globalisation versus localisation, postmodernism with its fragmentation and concepts of "otherness," as well as the relationship of all these concepts to Cyprus realities. A review of the relationship between television and media research to young audiences — internationally and locally - and a final discussion of quantitative and qualitative methodologies, ends Chapter two, foregrounding, at the same time, the third chapter on Methodology. The choice of the mixed paradigm — quantitative (statistical) and qualitative (Text and Discourse analysis of television programmes, and interviews and group discussions with the sample) is discussed, explained and documented in the third chapter. The fourth chapter consists of the presentation, statistical correlation and discussion of the results from the Statistical Field Survey, which rendered insights into the sample's attitudes and mapped the ground for the next two stages — the Programme analysis and the Interviews, by offering cues and clues for these stages. The fifth chapter presents a textual and discourse analysis of the first five programmes leading the sample's preference list in the Field Survey, while chapter six discusses the interviews and group discussions which were both cross-fertilized by the results of the Statistical Survey and the Programme Analysis. Finally, in the seventh chapter the conclusions from the Research are discussed in the light of the initial aims and goals of the study and suggestions are made for future research which can both derive from, and continue to add to the issues which have been investigated in the present project. The present Research Study did not aim at validating or corroborating one or more hypotheses, as it used a mixed paradigm with different methodological approaches, which could not, as a result render thoroughly congruent or consistent results. It did seek, however, through the use of its progressive, longitudinal research model conducted at different time periods, to empirically draw to the surface, as consistently and extensively as possible, answers to the goals and aims established initially in the thesis, which answers have rendered complementary conclusions throughout the stages of the cross-paradigm used.
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Goody, Matthew Christopher. """Thames Valley cotton pickers"": race and youth in London blues culture /." Burnaby B.C. : Simon Fraser University, 2005. http://ir.lib.sfu.ca/handle/1892/2344.
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Winterwood, Fawn Christine Phelps. "Literacy, identity, and digital youth culture understanding the cultural ecology of informal digital literacy practices /." Columbus, Ohio : Ohio State University, 2008. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=osu1212410327.
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Vilutis, Luana. "Cultura e juventude: a formação dos jovens nos Pontos de Cultura." Universidade de São Paulo, 2009. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/48/48134/tde-23092009-132908/.
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Esta pesquisa tem como objetivo identificar a relação entre o acesso à cultura, o processo pedagógico de formação de jovens e sua inserção comunitária. Para tanto, baseamos este estudo na experiência de jovens que participaram da formação realizada em Pontos de Cultura, instituições contempladas no programa Nacional de Cultura, Educação e Cidadania - Cultura Viva e que implementaram a ação Agente Cultura Viva. Situamos esse programa na cena pública cultural brasileira do período de 2003 a 2008, marcada pelo debate sobre a formulação de políticas de valorização da diversidade de expressões culturais. Para fundamentar a análise desta pesquisa, partimos da compreensão de que a cidadania cultural e o direito à cultura são pressupostos da pluralidade da criação cultural. É nesse contexto de interculturalidade que os agentes mediadores de cultura assumem papel relevante para o desenvolvimento da ação cultural, pois são sujeitos que circulam por diferentes espaços, transitam em contextos variados e participam de iniciativas diversas. A prática educativa dos jovens estudados se constituiu em uma ação problematizadora e organizadora da experiência cultural que potencializa as escolhas dos jovens em termos de seu trabalho e da expressão de sua identidade. O trabalho de campo foi realizado nos anos de 2007 e 2008 e reuniu entrevistas com 17 jovens homens e mulheres que participaram da formação da ação Agente Cultura Viva em dois Pontos de Cultura da Zona Leste da cidade de São Paulo. É possível identificar recorrências nos relatos dos jovens entrevistados, que revelam o significado do processo de formação marcado pela experimentação de diversas linguagens estéticas, pela vivência intergeracional e pela convivência comunitária. Essas ações, por sua vez, estimularam a ampliação do espaço público de fruição cultural e a sociabilidade criadora, que impulsiona o trabalho coletivo e juvenil de criação. Do ponto de vista teórico, este estudo foi orientado pela categoria de ação cultural de Paulo Freire, em diálogo com as abordagens de Teixeira Coelho. O estudo do direito à cultura e da política cultural teve como subsídio a leitura de instrumentos legais, normas jurídicas e declarações internacionais sobre a temática. A análise das entrevistas, por sua vez, se apoiou na noção de mediadores desenvolvida por François Dubet para a compreensão do papel desenvolvido pelos jovens agentes culturais.This research\'s objective is to identify the connection between the access to culture, the pedagogical process of young people\'s formation and their communitarian insertion. In order to do so, this study was based in the experience of young people who have participated in formations at Culture Points, institutions that were benefited by the Programa Nacional de Cultura, Educação e Cidadania - Cultura Viva (National Culture, Education and Citizenship Program Living Culture) and that implemented the ação Agente Cultura Viva (Living Culture Agent). This program is situated in the Brazilian culture public scene from 2003 to 2008, when there was strong debate on defining policies for promoting the diversity of cultural expressions. We base the analysis in this research in the understanding that cultural citizenship and the right to culture are prerequisites to the plurality of cultural creation. It is in this context of interculturality that the culture mediator agents take on relevant roles for the development of cultural action, since they are subjects that circulate through different spaces, transit through various contexts and participate on diverse initiatives. The educative practice of the young people studied consisted in a problematizing and organizing action of their cultural experience that fosters young peoples choices regarding their work and expressing their identity. The field work was carried out in 2007 and 2008 and assembled interviews with 17 young men and women who participated in the formation of ação Cultura Viva in two Culture Points of the East Area of São Paulo. It is possible to identify recurrent themes in the young peoples accounts that reveal the significance of experimenting different aesthetic languages, intergenerational living experiences and shared community life that influenced their formation process. These actions stimulated the widening of the public space for cultural enjoyment and creating sociability, that boosts the collective and youthful work of creating. From a theoretical point of view, this study was oriented by the Paulo Freires category of cultural action dialoguing with Teixeira Coelho approaches. The study of the right to culture and of cultural policy was based on the reading legal instruments, norms and international declarations on the theme. The analysis of the interviews was founded on the notion of mediators developed by François Dubet for understanding the role young cultural agents played.
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Carew, Joanne. "The power of peers: mobile youth culture, homophily and informal learning among a group of South African youth." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/23428.
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Popular notions of "net generations" and "digital natives" have already been subject to sustained academic critique. This dissertation builds on such critiques by documenting the local practices and distinctive mobile literacies of a group of young people in South Africa. These young people (ages 13-17, n=18) were asked how they were learning about and using ICTs. The sample lived in Makhaza, Khayelitsha, and were members of a non-profit youth development organisation, Ikamva Youth, participating in beginner coding classes. This study explored what they had already learned about ICTs from their networks of close interpersonal relationships (n=133) and asked them how they felt about their own ICT knowledge, as well as the ICT skills of those around them. Unlike their wealthier counterparts, such young people do not have ubiquitous Internet connectivity, ease of access to consumer electronics or many opportunities to learn about computers in particular. Yet, rather than being stuck on the wrong side of a 'digital divide' or waiting passively for government to fulfil broken promises about digital literacy in schools, they were actively pursuing knowledge about ICTs and mobiles in particular. They demonstrated distinctive 'mobile-centric' repertoires, fostered through learning about ICTs from their strong ties. This gave rise to a distinctive mobile youth culture, shaped by race, class, and gender dynamics. Gendered biases and preoccupations, peer networks and technicities were particularly important. While this allows many creative and strategic appropriations of mobile technology, it also means that largely homophilous informal learning networks in part set the bounds of their learning. When most of what you're learning comes from your friends, it really matters who those friends are. Unsurprisingly, gaps in their digital literacies were apparent. In particular, their ability to fully participate in modern digital publics is curtailed. It remains essential to provide formal opportunities for young people to learn about ICTs at school, but also informally via a larger network of interpersonal relationships and communities of practice such as Ikamva Youth. Mobile technology presents many opportunities and suggests new approaches to digital literacy. Nonetheless, it seems likely that, given difficulties in accessing high status ICTs and bridging capital in particular, access and knowledge gaps will continue to disadvantage such young people.
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Williams, Karmin B. "Examining School Re-entry Culture through the Voices of Adjudicated Youth." Thesis, Lewis and Clark College, 2018. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10790424.
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School officials know very little about adjudicated youth’s experiences after re-entering school. Moreover, the research literature defining and describing school culture as a whole is weak and treats school culture as monolithic. This qualitative study seeks to understand school re-entry culture through the voice of high school students who have reversed the school-to-prison pipeline. This study utilized semi-structured interviews and photovoice research methods.
Data analysis revealed a school counterculture that exists for students re-entering school. The findings in this study describe a school counterculture of repurposing safety to act on students’ behalf when facing a potential injustice and repurposing of facilities for privacy and autonomy. When describing reengagement in school, participants noted belonging and acceptance as defining school; help from teachers was critical. The participants also highlighted how the culture of mainstream school requires the practice of catching-up, which for re-entering students, is a very different experience than students who hold significant social and cultural capital.
The findings in this study contribute an understanding of culture, as a problematic construct. This study proposes that culture should be described and examined as a mosaic of diverse cultures. In addition, using McLaren’s (2003) definition of culture helps us see how re-entering students maintain their position in society through the practices, values, and norms in mainstream school determined by dominant culture.
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Kennelly, Jacqueline Joan. "Citizen youth : culture, activism, and agency in an era of globalization." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/769.
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This thesis seeks to uncover some of the cultural practices central to youth activist subcultures across three urban centres in Canada: Toronto, Montreal, and Vancouver. I undertake this work within the context of rising moral and state claims about the apparent need for ‘good citizenship’ to be exercised by young people, alongside a late modern relationship between liberalism, neoliberalism, and Canada’s history of class- and race-based exclusions. The theoretical framework bridges cultural and political sociology with youth cultural theory. It also draws heavily upon the work of feminist philosophers of agency and the state. The main methodology is ethnographic, and was carried out within a phenomenological and hermeneutic framework. In total, 41 young people, ages 13-29, were involved in this research. Participants self-identified as being involved in activist work addressing issues such as globalization, war, poverty and/or colonialism.
The findings of this study suggest that the effects of the historical and contemporary symbol of the ‘good citizen’ are experienced within youth activist subcultures through a variety of cultural means, including: expectations from self and schooling to be ‘responsible,’ with its associated burdens of guilt; policing practices that appear to rely on cultural ideas about the ‘good citizen’ and the ‘bad activist’; and representations of youth activism (e.g. within media) as replete with out-of-control young people being punished for their wrong-doings. Wider effects include the entrenched impacts of class- and race-based exclusions, which manifest within youth activist subcultures through stylistic regimes of ‘symbolic authorization’ that incorporate attire, beliefs, and practices. Although findings suggest that many young people come to activism via a predisposition created within an activist or Left-leaning family, this research also highlights the relational means by which people from outside of this familial habitus can come to activist practices. Taken together, findings suggest that youth activism must be understood as a cultural and social phenomenon, with requisite preconditions, influences, and effects; that such practices cannot be disassociated from wider social inequalities; and that such effects and influences demand scrutiny if we are to reconsider the role of activism and its part in expanding the political boundaries of the nation-state.
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MORAES, MARIA CRISTINA BRAVO DE. "IT-GIRLS AND THE IT ABOUT LUXURY: CULTURE, YOUTH AND MEDIATION." PONTIFÍCIA UNIVERSIDADE CATÓLICA DO RIO DE JANEIRO, 2017. http://www.maxwell.vrac.puc-rio.br/Busca_etds.php?strSecao=resultado&nrSeq=32092@1.
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Esta dissertação analisa o consumo sob a perspectiva cultural, considerando possíveis contextos sociais. Dentre os prováveis, compreende o luxo entre jovens cariocas, a partir das práticas e representações do consumo de um grupo denominado it-girls, moradoras de favelas e bairros menos privilegiados da cidade do Rio de Janeiro, aqui apresentadas como mediadoras culturais. Para tanto, realiza, inicialmente, uma pesquisa online com jovens das camadas médias cariocas para mapear a relação do jovem com o consumo e de que forma o luxo se insere neste contexto. Para o desenvolvimento da pesquisa é utilizado o recurso metodológico da revisão bibliográfica, a fim de entender o significado do consumo, e os múltiplos conceitos que os bens podem adquirir na vida dos indivíduos que os consomem, localizar no tempo o significado do luxo e do consumo de luxo, e como esse consumo tem influenciado o desenvolvimento das sociedades. O método das entrevistas em profundidade por sua vez, permite a coleta de informações, percepções e experiências das it-girls, Ana Carolina, Jessica e Annapaula, moradoras dos bairros de Benfica, Santa Cruz, no conjunto habitacional Cesarão, e Tijuca, na Favela do Salgueiro, respectivamente. Ainda, como parte do trabalho de campo, a pesquisa etnográfica utiliza a ferramenta da observação participante nas comunidades em que as jovens moram ou trabalham e no shopping de luxo Village Mall e, desta forma, permite examinar como elas articulam os capitais cultural, social e econômico. As observações interpretadas ajudam a compreender que as representações midiáticas do luxo e do consumo passam por mudanças, considerando que o jovem não é uma coisa só, mas que ele se articula com outros grupos sociais, sejam estes nas favelas, nos bairros da periferia ou na zona sul da cidade do Rio de Janeiro, bem como nas redes sociais. Desta forma, as descobertas desta dissertação reafirmam o papel mediador das it-girls, não só pela capacidade dessas jovens em transitar em grupos sociais distintos, mas de gerar novos hábitos, e de transformar a realidade social de outras tantas jovens.This Master thesis analyses consumption from a cultural perspective, based on the role of social contexts. In this sense, it aims to understand what luxury means for the youth who live in Rio de Janeiro, considering the practices and representations of consumption from a specific group entitled it-girls, who live in the favelas and suburbs of the city. In this work, these girls are presented as cultural mediators. Accordingly, this research starts with an online survey with young middle class women that served to the purpose of mapping the relations between youth and consumption, and of identifying how the idea of luxury plays a role in this relationship. In order to further develop the central argument of this work, the online survey is followed by an in-depth literature review that aims to understand the meanings of consumption, and the multiple conceptualizations that material objects can acquire in their consumers lives, as well as to localize in time the meanings of luxury and luxury consumption, and how the later has informed the development of societies over time. Furthermore, the in-depth interview method was used with the it-girls, Ana Carolina, Jessica and Annapaula, dwellers of the neighborhoods of Benfica, Santa Cruz in the Cesarão housing complex, and Tijuca, in the Favela do Salgueiro, respectively. These interviews provided data collection of information, perceptions and experiences. Finally, and still as part of fieldwork, the ethnographic gaze that orients this Master thesis was largely informed by the participant observation in the places where the it-girls live or work, as well as during a field excursion in the luxury mall Village Mall. During these experiences, it was possible to perceive how these girls articulate cultural, social and economic capitals. The interpretation of collected data allowed the understanding that representations of luxury and consumption are subjected to change, considering that the youth is not whole, but rather it is articulated in relation to other social groups, regardless of where they are geographically located, and within the social media realm. Hence, the main findings of this research reaffirm the role of the it-girls as cultural mediators, not only for their capacity to circulate between different social groups, but also for their power to generate new habits, and to transform the social realities of other young women.
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Cornelissen, Tara-Leigh. "Youth multilingualism and popular culture interactions at His People Pentecostal Church." University of the Western Cape, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/11394/5824.
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Magister Artium - MA (Linguistics, Language and Communication)Youth multilingualism is an overarching notion that accounts for the dynamic macroand micro-linguistic practices and interactions in contexts and spaces redefined by cultural practices. It makes contributions to interactional sociolinguistic research, by centring around young multilingual speaker's practices, with a focus on creativity, identity and community of practice. This study demonstrates how youth multilingualism emerges in interactions in a religious youth group. For the purpose of this study, I collected interactional data from two youth groups belonging to His People Pentecostal Church that reflects the use of language by young people while taking into account their gender and race. The data was collected by means of audio recordings that focused specifically on the young multilingual speakers' naturally occurring talk. I made use of conversational analysis and stylization as an interlinked framework to analyse the collected data. Furthermore, this study also made use of interviews to further investigate language, gender and race at the church through the eyes of both the youth leaders and the youth members. Finally, in this project, I argue that in terms of language use, there is a large discrepancy between the two youth groups and how they stylize their multilingualism.