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Write short note: Youth culture.

  • UPSC 1985
  • Education System and Social Change

Youth culture denotes the distinctive values, styles, language and leisure practices through which the young mark themselves off from adult society. The term was given currency by Talcott Parsons ("Age and Sex in the Social Structure of the United States", 1942), who observed that industrial societies had produced, for the first time, a socially recognised…

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