De politieke waarde van verzet tegen volwassenen: jeugdcentrisme en conservatisme in Nederland 1986-1994

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A basic controversy in youth sociology is the one between functionalists, claiming that youth indulge in youth cultures to comply with societal values, and neo-Marxists, assuming that youth establish youth cultures that oppose dominant culture. Here, the controversy is put in an empirical perspective comparing (shifts in) political orientations of youth, youth resisting adult culture, youth centrists, and adults. Two Dutch data sets, the cross-sectional value study SOCON 1990 (N = 1,200) and the panel study UTYCP 1986-1994 (N= 145), show that youth and youth centrists follow the cultural trends with much precision. There is one exception preventing full support for the functionalist view: youth centrists have conservative views of women and in this respect oppose trends in Dutch society. 4 Tables, 58 References. Adapted from the source document.