CMNS 221 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Talcott Parsons, Teen Magazine, African-American Culture
4 Apr 2016
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~style as a form of compensaion for a new world of labor and opportunity~ Style is a space of negoiaion where peoples ideniies come into acion. Cool hunters 20 sth year olds who were once cool themselves who track cool trends. Major consumers/users of popular media and the objects of intensive media atenion. For middle class kids tends to consume more of internet and lower tends to be more. Digitally savvy and someimes globally connected global souls . Research tells us that"s not always enirely true (its rarer than you think) We"re good at consumer uses of technology but more complex uses of digital plaform is not. Young ppl today are touching muliple worlds that is dif from older generaions. Paricular youth are folk devils, a threat to the social fabric and yet simultaneously vicims of social neglect and disregard. Youth are usually seen as problems (folk devils) whereas children usually are seen as icons.
