Abstract or Introduction
Studies about youth cultures concentrate on young people living their lives in plural, fragmented worlds, whereas they themselves perceive their surroundings as one world, a highly complex but unified world. Not binary in its core, but hybrid in the truest meaning of the word.
Nilan and Feixa state in Global Youth? That they are less concerned about the official definition of the terms ‘youth’, ‘global’ and ‘culture’ but focus rather on the social construction of identity in young people or how they describe it “the distinctiveness of local youth cultures in a globalized world”. They characterize globalization as rapid social transformation with hybridity in its wake. "Hybrid" is in this context the merging of a binary system such as local as global, hegemonic and subaltern, the centre and the periphery, as well as the non-western impact on the west, which often leads to multiplicity, according to the academic perception.
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- Lisa Gutman (Author), 2014, Youth and Popular Culture in Sweden, Munich, GRIN Verlag, https://www.grin.com/document/349147
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