TOUR1001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Determinant, Argot, World Tourism Organization
Lecture Wk7: Special Interest cultural tourism & Youth
Culture
Tuesday, 8 May 2018
10:41
Counterculture of the 1960s:
• Anti-establishment cultural phenomenon (largely based in the US and the UK)
~ Commenced with the assignation of president John F Kennedy and largely
ended with Richard Nixon's resignation in 1974
• 1960s counterculture grew from a confluence of people, ideas, events, issues,
circumstances, and technological developments which is served as intellectual and social
catalysts for exceptionally rapid change during the era
• Many new ideas progressed:
~ civil rights
~ free speech
~ human sexuality
~ anti-war movement
~ anti-nuclear focus
~ environmentalism
~ women's rights
~ traditional model of authority
~ experimentation of drugs
• Many of the changes from the countercultural era, greatly impacts specific cultural
segments- one can be claimed to be Youth culture
• Youth culture is defined as the way of adolescents live, and the norms, values, and
practices they share (Rice, 1996)
Youth culture & style :
• Young people around the globe today are influenced by phenomena such as:
~ Communications technology
~ Neo liberal political economy
~ Mass consumerism
~ Climate Change
• They are largely fed on the "lifestyle of the rich and the famous"
• Youth are though to have an emphasis on several areas such as:
~ Clothes
~ Popular Music
~ Sports
~ Vocabulary
~ Dating
• The youth culture can appeals to different self images, values and behaviour, but they
will often bear a close relation to opposition of the parent class culture
• Common characteristics:
~ Defined as under 30
~ Based on different classes
~ Can often be defined as rebellious
~ May celebrate and dramatic specific styles and values
~ Can be very focused on political gender
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• Despite youth culture being very popular to a specific cohort, youth culture will change
rapidly and things thought as relevant may soon become irrelevant, reasons such as:
o YOUTH CHANGE:
• Youth grow older
• Youth get married/family
• Youth may mature through employment
• Youth may lose interest in specific social matters
o Society changes
• Society has new trends
• Younger cohort - teenagers will age to become youth
• Several important indicators are raised by style, Blake (1985) considers 3 main elements
to define their relationship
o Image - appearance composed of culture, accessories such as hair-style, jewellery
and artefacts
o Demeanour - made up of expression, gait and posture
o Argot - a special vocabulary and how it is delivered
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