Week 7- Barker Chapter 13 (Youth)

The concept of "adolescence" is largely culturally derived. Barker presents the trend of cultural studies in first identifying youth culture as a subculture of resistance and then coming to a place of demythologizing the concept of resistant subcultures. I think Barker is right to question the concept of resistance, or at least to locate this resistance in personal subjectivity. Perhaps youth feel they are resisting society's expectations, but the media and the culture industry thrive on this concept of "resistance" and make billions of dollars on the commercialization of rebellion.