REFLECTIONS ON YOUTH SUB-CULTURES

Abstract

Youth culture and youth subcultures have been a subject of research since the early 1930s of the previous century. It is most certainly true today that there is not one singular youth culture but a variety of different youth subcultures. The 90’s can not be described as the same as the 60’s or 70’s or even the 80’s, etc.There are many reasons put forward by sociologists for this such as there are more styles available today, media influences us more and there is a higher disposable income per household to spend on fashions. We shall try to explore in the given article the reasons behind the existence of youth cultures in previous years and why the same format has not occured at the end of the XX – the beginning of the XXI centuries.