Expanded Research Into Different Youths

A youth is a period of transition from the dependence of childhood to adulthood. As a category youth is more fluid than other fixed age-groups. Age is the easiest way to define this group, particularly in the relation to education and employment. This is due to 'Youth' often referred to a person between the ages of leaving compulsory education, and finding their first job. 

Two different youths that made history are the 'Mods and Rockers'. The Mods and Rockers were two different conflicting youth's in the early to mid 1960's. Media coverage of these two youths fighting in 1964 sparked a panic about all British youths. This shows that media have a huge influence on how society see's these youths. As the media grew about these two different youths. They were both labelled as 'Folk Devils'. 

The rocker subculture was centred on motorcycling, and their appearance reflected that. Rockers generally wore protective clothing such as black leather jackets and motorcycle boots (although they sometimes wore brothel creeper shoes). The common rocker hairstyle was a pompadour, while their music genre of choice was 1950s rock and roll, played by artists like Eddie Cochran, Gene Vincent, and Bo Diddley.

The mod subculture was centred on fashion and music, and many mods rode scooters. Mods wore suits and other cleancut outfits, and preferred 1960s music genres such as soul, rhythm and blues, ska, beat music, and British blues-rooted bands like The Who, The Yardbirds, and The Small Faces.