Sociology 2105A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Late Modernity, Late Modernism, Youth Studies
16 Dec 2015
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This has developed in sociology parallel to, and as a structuralist alternative to, postmodernism during the fourth phase of youth studies. Gidden"s and beck (1991) were the founders of this, while furlong and cartmel (2007) have adapted it specifically to youth studies. Late modernism share postmodernism concerns with societal problems associated with institutional fragmentation, but stress the importance of personal agency in dealing with problematic societal contexts. This perspective views the transition to adulthood in terms of the normative structures that can guide youth during this transition. Normative structures refer to the value based patterns and standards of behavior that can give people"s lives meaning. Since durkheim"s writings on social anomie, a further destructuring of institutions are postulated to have taken place in general late modernity, with institutional reconfiguring altering norms that once guided youth into adult roles.
