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Can be a legally defined age around 17-18: represents transition period from child to adult. Schlegal and barry define youth as a stage of early adulthood: youth have many adult traits but do not have all the rights and responsibilities of an adult. It is important to view this category as a separate stage from children and adult: youth can vary across cultures some may use a life stage like puberty while some cultures may not see adults until 30-40. Explained as a mixture of dependence and independence. What youth are can change depending on the context they are in: used to draw attention to larger structures, people who discuss youth have their own expectations of the roles and responsibilities youth should have. Durham develops this idea that youth are a social shifter. Important to know that youth have relation to power hierarchy: adults have more power than youth. It is a historically constructed social category.
