Youth movements

By youth movements or youth cultures we understand a series of socio-cultural processes promoted by youth as a defined social group.

Age as a criterion for youth is insufficient and is dynamically related to the transition from the world of education to the world of work.

For this reason, it is necessary for young people to belong to a group or community that makes them feel accepted and share their ideological thoughts with other young people.

As made clear in the 2005 and 2006 mobilizations in France of young immigrants against discrimination, first, and of young students and workers against the reduction of protections to the first employment contract, young people have emerged as a social field with its own specificity.

Youth problems are related to:

• the study, and especially with the university study, through student movements
• the first job
• sex and sexuality
• the music
• Internet Games
• ages of citizenship and civil rights
• fashion
• ideals
• the future
• the age of criminal responsibility
• the fiicide
• the generation gap
• Adults

Young people have created differentiated spaces in political parties, unions, churches, etc.

Young people are also often a target for manipulation by powerful groups, as happened with the Hitler Youth and it is reported to be the case with advertising and brands.