SOC 216 Youth in Society

This course will examine how public perceptions and constructions of youth have evolved over time by asking (and answering) the following questions. How are contemporary youth more or less similar than preceding generations? Where does “youth culture” come from and how has it changed? How do social structure and the wider culture shape youth and social constructions of youth? Students will study the lives of youth from an interdisciplinary and social scientific framework that encompasses an in-depth look at the interconnections of human behavior and social institutions. A social world course in the GC Core.