NCJ Number
242837
Journal
Youth & Society Volume: 28 Issue: 1 Dated: September 1996 Pages: 3-39
Date Published
September 1996
Length
37 pages
Annotation
This article attemps to give a portrayal of Canada's youth culture.
Abstract
To date, the sociological study of Canadian youth culture has lacked analytical attention. In this article, attention is directed toward exploring and understanding normative, everyday gendered youth culture among a sample of 2,074 high school seniors in 3 Canadian cities. The recognition in this study of women's and men's varied youth culture activities provides an opportunity to show how both traditional male and liberal feminist models of youth culture have structured not just the popular view of youth culture but also the compartmentalization of social life into separable structures with separate functions. Abstract published by arrangement with Sage Journals.