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This 5 page paper provides an overview of the elements of youth culture in the United States. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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youth identification and youth style. New fashions, the use of tattooing and piercing, and even the integration of youth "literature," the comic book, are all factors that define the
presence of a youth culture in the United States. Perhaps no other single element, though, defines the symbolic nature of youth culture as style. Physical style, or fashion,
and the use of piercings and tattoos, have become an imperative component of the youth identity that can be described as a "symbolic form of resistance." In fact, current
research suggests that youths participate in different stylistic manifestations of culture, including different fashions and the use of body art, as a means of expressing an independent identity and separating
themselves from normative cultural views. In considering this argument, it is necessary to relate the concept of a youth subculture
to the development of symbolic forms of identification. In doing this, it is possible to understand the way in which the youth culture pursues certain methods of identification, style,
in particular, as a basis through which the subculture defines itself in conflict with or resistance to the dominant culture. Inherent in this view, then, is the assessment of
cultural relativism and the impact that relativism has on defining methods of separation from the dominant culture. Both Tovey (1997) and Lopez
(1991) considered the issue of identification and the development of communication that can occur between the dominant culture and subcultures as a basis for understanding resistance and opposition to change.
In developing an understanding of their arguments, both of these theorists relate to the conceptual view of relativism as it defines cultural identity. The conceptual basis for the
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