There's a lot of omplaining going on about the young and their behaviour. Is this any worse than other stages in history? Are their cultural reasons for this? If it is happening, how old is it?
Briefish answers and citations appreciated.
2007-01-01 23:56:10 · 17 answers · asked by mince42 4 in Social Science ➔ Sociology
sorry that should be 'complaining'. oops.
2007-01-01 23:56:58 · update #1
because that is the fastest and easiest way to their parent's wallets.
Foe example, Psychology was a field that serviced the rich and criminally insane. Since they have been misdiagosing kids and doping them on designer narcotics and other drugs they have been raking in the cash.
2007-01-02 17:53:08 · answer #1 · answered by King Midas 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The older generation has always complained about the younger generation. We have all heard " In my day the children were seen and not heard", I don`t think that the young of to-day are any different from those that have gone before them. In their own way, each generation has done and said the things they knew would shock the older people.It is because we have `seen and heard it` all before that the young think up new ways to shock. We are obsessed with youth, there is no doubt about that. Young people are full of energy and wonder and ambition, they are fit and strong, so it is little wonder that the focus is on them rather than older people , who perhaps have lost their initial sparkle. The young certainly have far more `going `for them them than at any other time in history. None -the-less, there is still some truth is the saying " Love, like youth, is wasted on the young."
2007-01-06 20:23:46 · answer #2 · answered by Social Science Lady 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Oh this sort of thing has happened since time immortal. In the sixties and seventies parents whinged about the swingers and drugs and Rock n Roll and whatever, the eighties it was shaven legs and wonderbras and poodle perms which parents fretted over, the nineties it was kids going to raves taking E and getting Aids, now it's boob jobs and the pussycat dolls. It's always been the same!
Even in the Victorian era there was Syphillis flying around, and children born out of wedlock, a complete disregard for religion and parents... people were hooked on Laudanum and Opium... swings and roundabouts! Just the fashion and technology are more advanced, but it's the same old sh - different century.
2007-01-02 08:06:16 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
I think we are overly impressed with youth. Youth is just a stage in life and it is transient. Line-free faces and tight bodies do not a good soul make. Living brings wisdom and understanding of oneself and others, and that's what's important. Complaining about the young and their behavior is nothing new, though. The older generation has always bemoaned the younger generation, no matter at what time in history.
2007-01-02 08:05:34 · answer #4 · answered by Scoots 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
yes.
western society is not obsessed with youth, are concerning about themselves!
think:
the biggest splash between youth and elderly people happened now (it is developing since the hippies time), but thinking more in information society young ppl are the ones who know much more than elderly ones. The problems will occure here. because politicians and guvernment ppl do not know so many thing about computer and the way teens can use it... you are blogging, haveving myspace, have friends fromall the world, but your parrents do not know this, and you are not telling this, this is the point where you separate your life from your parrents. not means that you become adult! just that you are starting to live in a way that your parrents will not understand that!
the problems lies within these facts. it happens for first time in history that young people know something better than eléedrly one. even if the adults will learn to use the internet, computers... they wont addopt it in they everyday life like youa in your sociolization period do.
western societies are the place where these are going on. and try to make this difference more and more smaller, but it is inpossible. i am not against adults, older ppl, but we have to admit the internet changes the world, changes the way ppl will live their life, and addopt to community in the future... these are the concerns.
2007-01-03 13:22:20 · answer #5 · answered by parazita 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
yea western society is a bit obsessed with it. i think it started in the 60s when kids starting being more crazy and disobedient, and has continued from then. i think middle aged people tend to complain about stuff quite a lot, and that includes young people and their "bad behaviour." the irony is though, middle aged people are the ones with power and the most influencial people - so theyre the ones who can change it! i think the cultural reasons for the complaining is rooted in the ever-worsening stresses of life - which make everyone frustrated. this makes adults complain more, and kids act against society more.
2007-01-02 08:02:37 · answer #6 · answered by john9999999 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I think youth are always complained about because they lack the experience and wisdom that older people have. . .however it is a little unfair for older people to complain about the young too much since we have all been young and dumb and grown into our life's lessons.
2007-01-02 13:31:35 · answer #7 · answered by In God's Image 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
“As I approve of a youth that has something of the old man in him, so I am no less pleased with an old man that has something of the youth. He that follows this rule may be old in body, but can never be so in mind.” Cicero
There has always been complaining about youth. However it may be more now--with the baby boomers approaching old age.
2007-01-02 08:02:39 · answer #8 · answered by redunicorn 7 · 2⤊ 1⤋
There were over 500,000 boob jobs done in the US last year. Count faces butts thighs etc and Botox and collagen and you have a society OCD ing on youth.
2007-01-02 15:13:12 · answer #9 · answered by Rja 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Globalisation of Capitalism and Youth Culture go hand in hand.
2007-01-08 05:58:12 · answer #10 · answered by los 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋