... all children stop being children at the same time. Frith describes youth as "not simply an age group, but the social organization of an age group" Sociologists of youth, according to Frith, describe youth culture as "the way of life shared by young people". Subculture, as defined in the Concise Oxford Dictionary, is a 'cultural group within a larger culture often having beliefs or interests at variance with those of the larger culture'. This would imply that a subculture is a subdivision of a national culture; it exists between the parameters of certain cultures. TalcottParsons saw youth subcultures usually having important positive functions in easing the transition from childhood to full adult life in marriage and occupational status. It would appear that the majority of people leave these youth subcultures at some latter point, often at the point of marriage, therefore Parsons theory could be justified. Empirical observation carried out ...

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