CYC 347 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Binge Drinking

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Child and Youth Care
• Course: CYC 347
• Professor: Treisha Hylton

Document Summary

Youth is a social process that describes how groups of young people and individuals experience being young, how this is defined through institutions and policies, and how it"s related to social, economic, and political circumstances (sociological definition) Debate whether youth is am universal stage of life or a social construct which gains its parameters from social conditions. Social change and youth culture and professional issues. There is no dimension of young people"s lives that has not been affected by the processes of social change. Important to understand young people"s subjective experiences, the meanings that they attribute t their actions and lives, and the ways in which they shape their identities. Young people forge their identities through active engagement with the local and global realities they find, and hence they make sense of new social realities in ways that are different form the ways of older generations.