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Youth cultures and children s rights. Colouring the specific social component of youth - Youth cultures are not merely to be seen as the expression of the character of an age. They just as much indicate the areas of tension which young people experience these days. In this light youth cultures provide us with an image of the possibilities and difficulties people experience when making their lives concrete. The actual area of tension in Western childhood between greater individual educational opportunities, leisure possibilities and material position on the one hand, and increasing demands to competence on the other hand, finds its expression in the development of a prolonged youth phase or ’post-adolescence’. This development entails that the youth period is to a lesser extent than for example in the fifties and sixties, determined by the collective resistance of young people against the adult world but increasingly by the individual claim for more independence and equality towards adults. With respect to children’s rights these developments raise an area of special attention, especially about the relation children’s rights and social inequality.
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How to Cite: Bouverne-De Bie, M. (1995) “Jeugdculturen en kinderrechten: een debat over de inkleuring van het "sociaal-specifieke" van de jeugd”, Tijdschrift voor Sociale Wetenschappen. 40(4). doi: https://doi.org/10.21825/tvsw.95215