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The Localization and Globalization of Youth Cultures: New Styles, Fandoms and Consumption Patterns
The Localization and Globalization of Youth Cultures: New Styles, Fandoms and Consumption Patterns
Sunday, 10 July 2016: 10:45-12:15
Location: Hörsaal 32 (Main Building)
RC34 Sociology of Youth (host committee) Language: English
The study of culture is a longstanding focus of the sociology of youth.
Researchers studying young people’s creation and appropriation of culture and how this links to structural conditions must address novel questions as social changes impact on new generations emerging around the world. These changes include the blurring of the boundaries between youth and adulthood and new opportunities for cultural forms to interact and move around the world.
Youth styles, consumption patterns and fandoms developed in one part of the world are more easily adopted and uniquely developed in other parts of world, facilitated in particular by digital technologies and growing opportunities to travel. Young people create local cultural worlds drawing on and interacting with global cultural flows, originating not only in the West but increasing in other parts of the world, particularly Asia.
This session invites papers that address emerging youth cultural patterns in particular places and in a global context.
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