the emergence of the 'teenager' and youth culture Flashcards
new labour saving devices meant that
girls did not need to help their mothers at home as much
boys no longer had to take place in ?
national service after 1960
(national service- this conscripted young men for two years in military uniform)
how were young people different to their parents?
-dressed differently to thier parents, listened to different music, went to new coffee bars rather than old tea houses
what swelled the number of teenagers
post-war boom
a survey in 1959 estimated that there were how many teenagers in Britain?
5 million teenagers in Britain, about 10% of the population - made them more visible + economically important
young people had money to buy?
records and fashion, helping to create their own culture
by late 1950 there were magazines and tv programmes aimed specifically at
teenagers
mods and rockers
mods=drove motor scooters, rather more smart dressed than rockers
rockers= rode motorbikes, wore leather jackets prearranged fights usually took place in seaside resorts
possible explanation for the development of youth subculture (affluence)
- growing affluence of society enabled some young people on good wages to feel independent
-but those who did not (poverty) share general prosperity felt alienated
young people of 1960s
first generation to not have lived through the grim times of the depression and ww2
special section of society - ‘teenagers’ were deliberately targeted by
advertisers, to sell them fashionable clothes, pop music records
early 1950s the most oblivious youth subculture was
teddy boys - linked with juvenile delinquency and rising crime
-by later 1950s, replaced with rockers then mods
large-scale national sensation between mods and rockers(1960s)
large-scale organised rioting in the holiday resorts of Clacton,margate, and brighton
-Brighton rioting was 2 days, police unable to restore order
-moral panic, violence exaggerated
