In the following essay I will compare modernity and post-modernity relating to youth. I will draw upon one theory, policy and practice and critically reflect on it.
The Costello Committee Report defines the purpose of youth work as:
‘’Youth work must empower young people and enable them to emerge from the enveloping state of dependence….young people must know, feel and believe that they have some control over their situations in the sense of having ability to influence intentionally what happens to them and their community. The ability of young people to assess alternatives and choose the most appropriate one in any given situation, is central to our views of Social Education.’’
(Hurley & Treacy, 1993)
Modernity is associated with ‘’the sweeping …show more content…
Individual theorists and researchers have either different perspectives of youth or have moved from one to another throughout their careers. These are:
Developmental perspectives originate from mainstream psychology and are mainly concerned with the process of change that individual young people experience throughout adolescence. These changes include; physical change, cognitive and intellectual change.
Generational perspectives emphasise the ways in which young people engage in collective forms of expression and activity through distinctive youth cultures, which sets them out as a separate generation as they undergo individual development.
Structural Conflict perspectives reject the uniformed approach to youth culture and focuses on the ways that individual young peoples’ lives and experiences reflect structures of social …show more content…
There is an emphasis on the ways in which youth (as a social category and a stage in the lives of individual young people) is actively constructed and constituted within various related practices and discourses.
(Forde, Kiely, & Meade, 2009)
Peter Berger argued that the ‘basic casual factor’ of modern youth was ‘industrial society and its institutional dynamics’. ‘’The deepening of the division of labour, brought about by the process of modern production and administration. Modern youth is a further extension of the same process of institutional separation or differentiation…. The industrial revolution has produced an institutional structure which ‘allows’ room for youth.’’
(Forde, Kiely, & Meade, 2009)
‘Allowing room’ meant that they wanted to fully fill a room, not only with youth but with a range of different professions concerned with young people’s education, welfare and development. This also involved drawing on the theories and concepts that were being developed within the new disciplines of psychology, sociology and
The Costello Committee Report defines the purpose of youth work as:
‘’Youth work must empower young people and enable them to emerge from the enveloping state of dependence….young people must know, feel and believe that they have some control over their situations in the sense of having ability to influence intentionally what happens to them and their community. The ability of young people to assess alternatives and choose the most appropriate one in any given situation, is central to our views of Social Education.’’
(Hurley & Treacy, 1993)
Modernity is associated with ‘’the sweeping …show more content…
Individual theorists and researchers have either different perspectives of youth or have moved from one to another throughout their careers. These are:
Developmental perspectives originate from mainstream psychology and are mainly concerned with the process of change that individual young people experience throughout adolescence. These changes include; physical change, cognitive and intellectual change.
Generational perspectives emphasise the ways in which young people engage in collective forms of expression and activity through distinctive youth cultures, which sets them out as a separate generation as they undergo individual development.
Structural Conflict perspectives reject the uniformed approach to youth culture and focuses on the ways that individual young peoples’ lives and experiences reflect structures of social …show more content…
There is an emphasis on the ways in which youth (as a social category and a stage in the lives of individual young people) is actively constructed and constituted within various related practices and discourses.
(Forde, Kiely, & Meade, 2009)
Peter Berger argued that the ‘basic casual factor’ of modern youth was ‘industrial society and its institutional dynamics’. ‘’The deepening of the division of labour, brought about by the process of modern production and administration. Modern youth is a further extension of the same process of institutional separation or differentiation…. The industrial revolution has produced an institutional structure which ‘allows’ room for youth.’’
(Forde, Kiely, & Meade, 2009)
‘Allowing room’ meant that they wanted to fully fill a room, not only with youth but with a range of different professions concerned with young people’s education, welfare and development. This also involved drawing on the theories and concepts that were being developed within the new disciplines of psychology, sociology and