http://prisonnotebooks.com/2010/04/28/youth-in-history/ Tue, 08 May 2012 23:35:10 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 http://prisonnotebooks.com/2010/04/28/youth-in-history/comment-page-1/#comment-10494 Sean Fri, 30 Apr 2010 01:39:57 +0000 http://prisonnotebooks.com/?p=285#comment-10494 Hi. I liked Gillis's Youth and History as well. Better than Jon Savage's Teenage I thought. I suppose my problem with the study of youth is that-- let's face it-- we're dealing with an abstract noun. What is the student of youth to do? Offer a partial account by localizing the object of inquiry: working-class youth (which usually means white boys along the lines of the Birmingham school stuff that came out in the 70s); youth-as-consumer; youth gangs; etc. Is it even possible to speak of 'youth' as a generality? Hi. I liked Gillis’s Youth and History as well. Better than Jon Savage’s Teenage I thought. I suppose my problem with the study of youth is that– let’s face it– we’re dealing with an abstract noun. What is the student of youth to do? Offer a partial account by localizing the object of inquiry: working-class youth (which usually means white boys along the lines of the Birmingham school stuff that came out in the 70s); youth-as-consumer; youth gangs; etc.
Is it even possible to speak of ‘youth’ as a generality?

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