Attempts to show that the protests of the 1960's are evidence of a disjunction between the perceived role of young as adults and the actual role relegated them by society. Removing this disjunction causes a rapid decline in protest. (Author)

Reviews unique environmental features of the sixties that precipitated the growth of Alternative Youth Programs. Internal characteristics of Alternative Youth Programs are surveyed to identify features of counterculture ideology that were assimilated into the early structure of these organizations and contributed to their early success.…

The worldwide youth culture is becoming increasingly autonomous against the dominant adult" society, and within this autonomy youth culture is beginning to develop a structure and rationale of its own. Youthcult and youthmyth is a new species of cult behavior. (Author/JB)

A study examined the roles of language and school in the lives of a group of five Indochinese friends, aged 10-12, in the same sixth-grade class. Two were born in the United States; three were born in Thai refugee camps. The ways in which the subjects defined themselves in relation to other students, particularly other Asian students, and to each…

In this monograph, student protests and disturbances are viewed within a broad and well-informed framework, which includes: (1) the growing importance of youth and college students in American society; (2) the changing social position of youth and the rise of a generalized youth subculture; and (3) perspectives on cooperative subcultures, deviant…

This paper offers an explanation for the rise of radical, social movement activity among youth in the United States in the 1960s and for the decline of such activity in the 1970s. Mannheim's theory on generations is used to explain this phenomenon. Mannheim argued that the major historical events of an era will profoundly shape the political and…