Youth Subcultures In The 50's

Many aspects of living are changing and conforming to the things the youth of today are doing and revolutionizing our culture. (Bennet, 2007) states “Youth is so undefinable because of how rapidly it is changing. As soon as a definition of youth comes out, it is already contradicted by the new youth that is replacing the old”. We all see it adults everywhere panic about how fast things are changing compared to years ago when they were growing up they are afraid they will never be able to keep up with new trends. They see how easily influenced our society is to anything “new and exciting” the youth do. Older generations tend to look upon their own youth and those youth cultures of the past as perhaps more innocent and productive than they may have been realistically. …show more content…
Let’s look back into the past as Bennet was discussing to help expand what is being said using youth subcultures from generations of the past. If you look back into the 40’s, 50’s there was never any true subculture in society it was how things were in the world and the generation of that time they weren’t like how millennials because of that time period. Whereas we jump into the 60’s is where subcultures really developed it all began with “peace not war” and drugs played heavy influence into all of their lifestyle. The hippies brought something unique and different like no other in that time frame. They stood for something, that no one else has seen anything like it before at that time period. They simply were being different and they didn’t