Youth Culture - |ntroduction

Noun 1. youth subculture - a minority youth culture whose distinctiveness depended largely on the social class and ethnic background of its members; often characterized by its adoption of a particular music genre

The meaning, formation and behaviour of youth cultures have been the subject of research since the 1930s. In August 2011, England witnessed a number of ‘youth’ riots in several London Boroughs, Birmingham and Bristol.

Click here to read an article from 1999 detailing youth culture. The article was published in The Guardian. Within the piece, a timeline detailing the evolution and progression of youth culture over the decades: 

Timeline
1929 Borstals open as special prisons for adolescents.
1947 School-leaving age raised to 15. 
1953 The Wild One, starring Marlon Brando. ('What're you rebelling against?' Brando replies: 'What've you got?') First reportings of teds in the UK media. 
1957 Elvis scores his first UK number 1 with 'All Shook Up'. First UK youth TV broadcast, Six-Five Special, on national TV. 
1959 Mark Abrams's The Teenage Consumer outlines the potential of youth as a new consumer group. 
1967 Radio 1 launched. 
1971 Misuse of Drugs Act. 
1977 The Sex Pistols' God Save The Queen charts at number two in Silver Jubilee week. 
1981 Inner-city youth/race riots in Brixton and Toxteth. 
1989 First recorded UK ecstasy-related death: Clare Leighton in Manchester's Hacienda club.
1994 Criminal Justice Act targets travellers, festivals and raves.

Contrastingly, I found an article that was published in 2011 surrounding youth culture. However, the biggest difference between the two articles is the emphasis on social media in the 2011 article, with the inclusion of modern and recently coined terms to label youths such as "hipster". Read the article here.