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Class number:
3305
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Title: Soc of Youth & Youth Cultures |
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Department: Sociology |
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Career: Undergraduate |
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Component: Lecture |
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Session: Regular |
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Instructor's Permission Required: No |
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Grading Basis: Graded |
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Units: 1.00 |
| Enrollment limited to 19 |
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Current enrollment: 19 |
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Available seats: 0 |
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Start date: Tuesday, September 8, 2026 |
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End date: Wednesday, December 23, 2026 |
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Mode of Instruction: In Person |
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Schedule: TR: 2:55PM-4:10PM, LSC - 132 |
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Instructor(s): Hall, Rhys |
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Prerequisite(s): None |
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Distribution Requirement: Meets Humanities Requirement |
Course Description:
Sociology of Youth and Youth Cultures takes students on an era- and region-based analysis of the activities, movements, and media representations of young people while taking into consideration differences among youth according to race, class, gender, sexuality, and other sociological variables. Associations with youth culture and deviant or aimlessly rebellious behavior will be contrasted with examples of how young people have positively changed politics, values, cultures, and aesthetics for their ow age cohorts and for broader societies and generations to come. We will draw from film, television, journalism and news media, sports, games, music, fashion, and other forms of shared creative expression to analyze and make predictions for how the digital social media era will shape the future of youth cultures, education, systems of morality, and social movements. This course requires some sociological knowledge of general social issues so that students can apply an alternative approach and consider how those historically lacking social power have tackled systems and structures to create change from the ground up. |