youth and values
In an attempt to challenge societal values, youth cultures, in the form of rebellion, act and dress radically and form groups in protest. These dissident actions against the structure of existing society promotes the beginning of new small groups which reflect their own rules, structures, class, gender and ethnic ideologies. So, the youth culture, in challenging societal values, at the same time is reflecting them. In comparing Margaret Mead's young adults in Coming of Age in Samoa to Russian youth it is evident where the differences arise. The Samoans strong cultural values leave little need for individual expression. Expectations of the children change as they get older. They know what is expected of them and want to follow the rules. In contrast, the youth in the Soviet Union, live in a culture of confusion. They feel constricted by the laws of the society, see families collapsing around them, and believe things should change. They want to be individuals and they want to live by their own values and ideas. Many come from broken homes and poor communities with little respect for authority. They rebel against what they feel is an unjust society and look for a
Villages contain thirty to forty households each presided over by a head man with chiefly titles. Youth and Society in a Changing Russia. This results in arguments about who is responsible for the discipline of the child, the parents or the school. The close relationship between child and parent no longer exists, however, "the state sees the family as respon-sible for the children's welfare and for instilling in them behaviour acceptable to the existing social norms. One of the sanctioned groups played in a youth club of a working-class suburb of Moscow. Games also emphasize the group rather than the individual. To avoid this, teachers often fix marks to cover up what should be seen as an "alarm signal" to help the child. The young are taught that religion is only for the old. Wilson, Andrew and Bachkatov, Nina. Both have little regard for Christian beliefs and try to control their people with strict guide-lines. The choice was easy because she was never asked to make a choice involving a rejection of the standards of her social group (Mead, 1987, 149/50). No one talks to the patient, she is one of a faceless stream and often she gets no anaesthetic. Hundreds of thousands of women have pregnancies terminated elsewhere (Wilson, 1988, 201).
Common topics in this essay:
Soviet Union,
Similarly Samoan,
Soviet Political,
Judaic Lutheran,
Sasha Traskin,
Margaret Mead,
Alexei Kozlov,
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youth culture,
self esteem,
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coming age samoa,
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