The funny thing is, if I were at ASU, this paper would be rediculously easy. My internet would be fast enough to run ASU's journal database, and I would have the ASU library to borrow books from. It's a four page paper. I would write it the night before.
But I don't have those resources. The books I have are off-topic, and I have to hunt through them for what I need. I can't find journals to explain everything I need to know. I just don't have the resources.
And then there's the question of additional reasons for Do Not Want. I have my internship, which takes time and tires me out. I am in London, and I would rather be doing something more interesting. It is the summer, and I don't feel like I should be writing papers.
Also, it is on a topic that I don't have very much knowledge about, and am relatively ambivalent to. Youth culture is not something I know much about in the US, and not something I know very much about in the UK. Not the history of it from the 1960s until now, and not current youth culture. I'm supposed to mention genres of music and fashion that existed in youth culture. I don't know how music sounds in the proper time period. Classical, big-band, salsa, boogie-woogie... this is not the music I need. My dad's time period, and thus the music I overhear, is unhelpfully before the time period I need, and I don't think that Roar of the Earth or the Lord of the Rings soundtrack or the Hyrule Symphony are things I can talk about.
I do not like this paper.
Hi. I understand how this paper must suck. Four pages is also the kind of paper I would write the night before it is due, but probably made some research for, for a couple of days.
ReplyDeleteI find it hard to give it a proper definition of "youth culture" but I am sure you have thought about what the concept means.
I tend to think of culture as a set of traditions and other stuff that parents transmit to their children, and children to their own children, and so on for generations. Of course this definition of culture does not apply to youth culture, since "youth" are grown-up, and no longer youngesters by the time they have children.
Good luck with the heat (if it is still hot in London). It is hot at my place too... I don't have air-conditioning, but I have an electric fan. I plugged it, switched it on, and enjoy it.
xoxo
I've been researching up until now. I wrote the introduction this night, and tomorrow night I will write the rest of the paper. I have to go to work tomorrow, and to a cultural event, so it might be tricky.
ReplyDeleteCulture, as I am writing it, is a set of behaviors that is transmitted and creates uniformity and cohesion in a group. The difference between youth culture and traditional culture is that youth culture is transmitted peer-to-peer, while traditional culture is transmitted down the generations.
It is hot in London, and since I hail from the urban desert, I bemoan the lack of AC. Still, it's 41 degrees over in Phoenix, so I'm glad I'm not there...