youth

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rock music

  • The Rolling Stones
    In rock: Rock and youth culture

    But by the mid-1960s youth had become an ideological category that referred to a particular kind of hedonism, individualism, and modernism. Whereas youth once referred to high-school students, it came to include college students. Moreover, rock became multifunctional—dance and party music on the one hand, a matter of serious…

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sexual activity

social welfare services

  • Jane Addams
    In social service: Youth welfare

    The underlying aim of most social welfare services for young people, apart from those services that address immediate basic needs, is to prepare them for the assumption of responsible roles in the adult world. The majority of programs provide adult-supervised leisure-time group activities,…

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