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The International Library of Sociology

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YOUTH AND THE SOCIAL ORDER

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Founded by KARL MANNHEIM

The International Library of Sociology

THE SOCIOLOGY OF YOUTH AND ADOLESCENCE
In 12 Volumes

I	Adolescence	Fleming
II	Adolescents and Morality	Eppel and Eppel
III	Caring for Children in Trouble	Carlebach
IV	Casework in Child Care	Kastell
V	Children in Care	Heywood
VI	Delinquency and Opportunity	Cloward and Ohlin
(The above title is not available through Routledge in North America)
VII	Family Environment and Delinquency	Glueck and Glueck
(The above title is not available through Routledge in North America)
VIII	German Youth: Bond or Free	Becker
IX	A Psychoanalytical Approach to Juvenile Delinquency	Friedlander
X	Studies in the Social Psychology of Adolescence	Richardson and Forrester et al
XI	Working with Unattached Youth	Goetschius and Task
XII	Youth and the Social Order	Musgrove

YOUTH AND THE SOCIAL ORDER

by
F. MUSGROVE

First published in 1964
by Routledge

Reprinted in 1998, 2000, 2002
by Routledge
2 Park Square, Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon OX14 4RN

Transferred to Digital Printing 2007

Routledge is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group

1964 F. Musgrove

All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reprinted or reproduced or utilized in any form or by any electronic, mechanical, or other means, now known or hereafter invented, including photocopying and recording, or in any information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publishers.

The publishers have made every effort to contact authors/copyright holders of the works reprinted in The International Library of Sociology. This has not been possible in every case, however, and we would welcome correspondence from those individuals/companies we have been unable to trace.

British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data
A CIP catalogue record for this book
is available from the British Library

Youth and the Social Order
ISBN 0-415-17672-7
The Sociology of Youth and Adolescence: 12 Volumes
ISBN 0-415-17828-2
The International Library of Sociology: 274 Volumes
ISBN 0-415-17838-X

Publisher's Note
The publisher has gone to great lengths to ensure the quality
of this reprint but points out that some imperfections
in the original may be apparent

CONTENTS

TABLES

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

CHAPTERS four, five and six are based on articles which the author has published in The Sociological Review, The British Journal of Social and Clinical Psychology and The British Journal of Educational Psychology respectively. He thanks the editors of these journals for permission to use the material in this book.

Chapter One

INTRODUCTION

T HE central concern of this book is the status of youth, its determinants and consequences. This is necessarily an inter-disciplinary study, for no single intellectual discipline or method of inquiry could deal effectively with the range of argument and evidence which must be assembled and reviewed.

The present status of the young can be seen emerging from the economic, demographic and educational changes of the past centuryas well as from changing values in part determined by new philosophies and psychologies. The status of the young has profound consequences for the kind and quality of relationship which exists between the generations; it is related to the enterprise and inventiveness which a nation shows, to the tempo of social change. The differences in status between various groups of young people, which arise very largely from their economic functions and the type of education they enjoy, have a bearing on the way in which they relate themselves to wider society: these status differences underlie such varying responses as delinquency, separatist cultural or political youth movements, or apathetic conformity to the prevailing values of the adult world.

A great output of books and research papers in recent decades bears witness to the problem of youth today. Some years of experience of English educational institutions and of the position of the young in the rapidly changing tribal societies of Africa led the author to the conclusion that the issues of status had been insufficiently explored in the extensive literature which deals with the young. Role has been analyzed without sufficient attention to the underlying status which helps to explain it (with the notable exception of subcultural interpretations of delinquency).

The author made a first brief and tentative statement of this view in an essay which appeared in 1958.1 While some of the emphases and suggestions of this essay have been modified in the light of further study and research, this essay of five years ago was the point of departure for a programme of investigation, and substantially foreshadows the main lines of the present book.

Four major assumptions which are commonly made about the place of youth in modern society seemed to the author to merit special attention. The view that the status of youth tends to improve when young people are extensively excluded (protected) from the nation's economic life and undergo a more prolonged formal education, seemed over-simple. An examination of the changing status of the young over the past century or so in the light of their importance to the economy and the educational provision made for them, might be expected to throw some light on this problem. The truth appears to be much more complicated; for their exclusion from employment may seriously undermine their social power.

The segregation of the young from the world of their seniors has given them a special position in society. In some respects it is a position of diminished rather than enhanced social status. While demographic changesthe supply of young human beingsand economic developments are in large measure responsible for this segregation, psychological theories about the nature of youth have helped to justify it. The position of youth in contemporary society is only intelligible in terms of the rise since the later eighteenth century of a psychology of adolescence which has helped to create what it describes.

A second common assumption today is that young people have widely rejected the standards, guidance and authority of their seniors and are even united in hostility towards them. This hypothesis could only be tested by using the survey techniques of the social psychologist and investigating the attitudes of samples of young people towards adults, and of adults towards young people. The rejection by the young of their elders was a more complicated phenomenon, and far less extreme, than had been supposed. (See .) What emerged with the greatest clarity was the rejection of the young by adults.

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