1. Subcultures try to compensate for the failure of the larger culture to provide adequate status, acceptance and identity. In the youth subculture, youth find their age-related needs met

2. You'd really hate an adult to understand you
You'd really hate an adult to understand you. That's the only thing you've got over them - the fact that you can mystify and worry them

3. Analyse the ways in which the Media represent youth
Hypothesis: how do the media represent youth?
Example: where are youth shown this way?
Link to Theory: who says what about it?
Implications: what are the wider social effects of this representation?
Consider
a) on youth b) on other social groups

4. This is England ‘86 (2010 TV mini series/spin off from film This is England set in ’83) Quadrophenia (1976 – set in 1964)
Stan Cohen
Moral Panics
youth culture and its perceived possible threat to order and social rules