HIST1051 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Anzus, Stonewall Riots, Green Ban
• Week Eleven
• Lecture 11.1: Youth Cultures
• Professor Cathy Coleborne
• Youth Cultures
• Lecture Summary
PART ONE:
• Loge te hages: etesio of hildhood ad defiig of the adoleset fo th
century
• Changes in the 1950s: suburbia and childhood experts
PART TWO:
• Defining the adolescent: role of secondary schooling
• The teenage delinquent: bodgies and widgies
• Key Questions
• Was the teeage a podut of the s?
• How did ideas about child-rearing change in the 1950s?
• Why was there such concern about teenagers in the 1950s?
• What was it about teenagers in the 1950s?
• The extension of childhood
• The disoe of hildhood ad the goth of adolesee
• Judith Bessat: eithe hildhood o adolesee ae tieless, atual ad ahistoial
categories
• Socially constructed and historically situated
• 19th century: childhood as a period of innocence and vulnerability
• Dependent and separated from adult responsibilities
• Special qualities = social responsibilities
• Nurture and safeguard AND discipline and educate
• The extension of childhood
• Defining adolescence
• American psychologist G. Stanley Hall, 1904: Adolescence
• Hall: u out the estiges of eil i thei atue.
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• By 1920s: critical phase in development of child into adult
• Peiod of adjustet
• Traditional view: secondary schooling only necessary for intellectual elite
• BUT secondary schooling for all would not occur until the post-war period
• Adolescent Australia
• Murphy: sense of anxiety and promise
• The Age, : Fo Austalia, this next half century is one of unlimited promise – promise of
deelopet, of goth ito eooi adulthood
• Hopes and fears of the nation resting on the young
• Suburban domesticity and childhood
• Prosperity: parents envisage a safe and comfortable childhood
• Childhood becomes safer: vaccinations
• Best start in life: Nuclear family
• Consumer attention: products marketed at children
• The new childhood experts
• The new childhood experts: Bowlby
• Delinquent behaviour of homeless children after WWII
• Mateal depiatio: eed ostat ae of atual othe
• Intense mothering: focused on the needs of the child
• Weloed othes ut also ieases hilds deads o othes
• Motherhood as central task for women
• Government encouragement to stay at home
• The new childhood experts: Spock
• Tust ouself. You ko oe tha ou thik ou do
• Shift from strict parenting to meeting the needs of the child
• “pokia ethod: oe feedo ad paetal affiatio
• Criticism: too permissive; self-indulgent and rebellious
• 1960s: generation gap; 1950s: rise of juvenile crime
• PART TWO: Experts and adolescents
• Expanding university system: new generation of experts
• Expanding secondary school system: growing well-adjusted citizens
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• Aeia pshologist: shools ee eated fo the sole purpose of helping children to
go up popel
• The deliquet
• The failed adoleset shos sigs of eig aladjusted
• Delinquency beyond naughtiness, forerunner to crime
• The Adjustment of Youth, : potetialities fo phsial, etal and moral development
hile pepaig theseles to fill oth plaes as adult ees of soiet
• Key point: Balance sense of individual self with societal needs
•
Secondary schooling and the successful citizen
• Secondary education for all moving from educational policy to reality
• Psychologists: purpose of a democratised secondary education to provide space for young
people to decide who they were and what they wanted to be
• Supervised spaces: schools encourage teens to become capable citizens
• More than just an academic education: adjustment of the teenager to adulthood
• Noal ad deliuet adoleset ae poduts of s
• Combination of: war years, growing prosperity, education, experts
• Bodgies and widgies: violence
• 1940s: Woolloomooloo in Sydney
• Working-class youth culture: tradition of gang violence
• 1850–1890s: larrikins and criminality (The Mount Rennie Outrage)
• Age, : soethig iious ad ugl has eteed ito oug people of Austalia i the last
ouple of eas
• Bodgies and street violence: media beat-up and reality
• Bodies and widgies: historiography
• Acting tough as continuation of working-class culture male youth culture
• John Stratton: middle-class attempt to eradicate working-class culture
• Raymond Evans: not all working-class youth are bodgies. Middle-class youth can be bodgies
• Importance of oral histories in accessing experiences: imitating bodgie style more common
experience than violence
• Bodgies and widgies: fashion and music
• Taming the bodgie
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Document Summary
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