o examples of these "Youth Cultures", namely the Rockers and the Modernists (abbr. Mods), could develop and raise society's attention I want to explain in my further work.
             The origin of youth cultures in post-war Britain:
             There existed several decisive factors that led to the creation
             of "youth cultures" in the working class. Firstly the new school system that was introduced after the education act made it possible that pupils reaching the age of eleven spend most of their time in age-specific educational institutions. That had been completely different during World War II and before when most teenagers had been educated in all-age elementary schools. Now teenagers spent their school time together with other youths of same age who had common problems, dreams and interests in music, fashion etc. These pupils formed new groups even small societies for themselves whereas the adult society did not influence them that much anymore. They began to constitute their own rules and values.
             The youths could get new influences on fashion and music from the newly invented mass communications and mass entertainment. TV, radio and the Press fed them with the latest inventions in fashion and informed them about the new record of a hip pop group. In their own little society teenagers declared for themselves which of these inventions were "really" hip to them and among these influences they began to form their own style.
             It is also important to mention that now youths were able to consume a lot more than their predecessors could.
             The new spending power of youths was made possible by the increasing income of teenagers. For example Abrams states: „Verglichen mit 1938 stieg ihr Realeinkommen (unter Berück-sichtigung der Geldentwertung) um 50% (das ist doppelt soviel wie der Zuwachs bei den Erwachsenen), und das Budget, das sie zur freien Verfügung haben, stieg um etwa 100%." (4). That this...