My Critical Investigation

(MIGHT BE A QUESTION)

An exploration in how and why are teenagers often domineering in Media?

Teenagers have a reputation of being bad or either good. Most teenagers are usually associated as trouble making and get up to nothing. The portrayal of teenage boys usually associated as “yobs” in the media. On the other hand other teenagers do their homework and go to bed at 9pm. There is a stereotype of girl which is generally not involved in crime such as the male. They are more often related to helping chores in house and cooking for the family so they are not seen irresponsible and there is other student who goes to school and try to get on to higher education.
The film ‘Kidulthood’ (2006) directed by Menhaj Huda showed a wide range of teenagers which get up to gun crime, sex and violence. The film follows two days in the lives of a group of fifteen year olds teenagers from a rough area of London. Some of the teenagers clothing such as heavy jewellery may suggest that they are in a gang or maybe aggressive, other thing such as hoodies also known as hood rats. Other student will dress appropriately and are generally polite to respect to others.
Some sociologists say that teenagers’ behaviour’s comes from their upbringing. They get influenced by their parent. Many parent like their children to achieve high and get somewhere in life. Some parent might be abusive to other people in the public and therefore children would be influenced and start to imitate there parent inception on the other hand parent teach teenagers how to respect other and will treat everyone equal, and other parents bring their children up right and teach them rules and values.
‘World’s Strictest Parent’ is a television series developed by Twenty Twenty Television, originally broadcasted Britain by the BBC. This show was first shown in 2008 on BBC three, the narrative of the show is that the parents could not cope which their disobedient teenager and they send then off to a different country where they will live there for 2 weeks. There is a hidden curriculum that children will learn hidden education and will learn certain rules and the values of some of their possession that they take for granted. The key issues will be taught to respect other without the foul attitudes and manners. One of the main causes that may have triggered the relationship between their family member and there behavioural problem may be the separation of their parents. This is a psychological issue, it’s not something those teenagers get over, and these become far too much for them to take. They start to blame their parent and go against them. Another possible ways of teenager’s bad behaviour may be in the influence of their friend, family or even there celebrity fan. They start to imitate and copy what they do trying to impress there mates by doing so; dress, act and buy. E.g. Lindsey Lohan was sent to jail for drinking. They may have been peer-pressure or bully, for them to start drinking or smoking, some teenagers think that they don’t fit in so they like to copy people that are popular to get friend and to be seen as someone. By the end of this entire process teenager feel better about themselves and have leant new things. Teenagers feel that they can have a better relationship between their parents which they never had before. Other teenager has a friend like relationship with help them to open up what they do.
Teenagers have to be in full time education within the ages of 4 – 16. ‘Telegraph’ in July 2009, ‘young kids in many cities are running riot. There’s been a rise in gang culture and in drug culture. We have 30,000 children every year leaving school with no education qualification’ the social issues of teenagers in todays society and a shocking historical change from the behaviours of youth 50-60 year ago. Society expectations nowadays are you can’t get a decent job without having any qualification. A numerous number of teenagers are wanting to go to university and getting a degree.
‘Let Me In’ directed by Matt Reeves released in 2010 was a success remake of the movies ‘Let the Right One In’ by Tomas Alfredson released in 2008. The genre of the movies was a horror/thriller. The particular scene I focused on, was the young boy’s mother who fell asleep on the couch leaving the television to run of its own, didn’t realise that her son Owen 10 had left the house to meet his new friend which was known to be a vampire. On the television it said ‘where are your children at 10pm. This shows that a lot of young children like to leave there home and party elsewhere where there parent are not there some teenager say it something we call freedom. When teenage girls go out for a night they do not dress suitable e.g. the BBC three show ‘Snog Marry Avoid’ shows us a range of Great Britain public how much slap they have on them with; fake tan, false eye lashes and cake full of makeup. This also contrasts with the female prospective 50 year ago when women were oppressed and wasn’t allowed to go out. Nowadays everyone has a say in everything.
Young people as 10 carry around knife. They think it is self defence in the areas that they live ‘Kidulthood’. Statistics say that knife used in four out of ten youth crime in UK. It has also been said by the guardian that UK rate 0.23% death per 100,000. The ‘Guardian’ online website had a tragic story, 20 young, intelligent awaiting for his A-level result stabbed his mother repeated before calling 999 and informing them that they need ambulance, you probably thinking he was a cruel and vicious and out of his hand. Why would you kill your own mother? The responder asked “why did you do this”? He answered back by saying “quick before I go mad” whilst this was all happening his father and sister was sleeping. Teenagers have been vastly changed since in 1900s. Young adult were not seen doing not as much crime as the time. Teenagers weren’t seen as murderous or revengeful. Young as 10 said they are carrying knife around because it is for protection and for their own safety. Wilfred Owen once said in his poem ‘Anthem for doomed youth about manslaughter being a compared to slaughtering animals.
Facebook is one of the biggest social networking sites used by million people worldwide. ‘It has been blamed for facilitating a rise in cyber bullying by girls’ by the guardian. A young girl found admitting causing bodily harm to the young 20 years old girl who helped her track down via Facebook. This shows that not only male do the violence also women do to.
’16 and pregnant’, a show watched by, millions of viewer, this show is about 16 year olds have a baby at the age of 16. This is reality TV show where young teenage get themselves into being a young parent being able to cope with high school and looking after the baby and their relationship. They having trouble juggling everything such as bills, baby and so on. One example could be ‘Precious’, 2009 where Claireece “Precious” Jones, an abuses teen mother who is dark-skinned, over-weight and illiterate. There is a stereotype that black children get abused by their parent and are uneducated. It has been said that African-Caribbean children have not got any qualification (need to get the sources name). The gripping tale that the young woman’s struggle to overcome her past which shows that in this movies. Being over-weight is an issue raised because one in five 13 to 16 year old is over-weight. Obesity seems to be growing problem in today’s society, with the main causes considered to be a poor diet, eating too many fatty, sugary and calorie added food and lack of exercise. What more? It can affect teens psychologically too and may bring with a range of problem, such low esteem, bullying, negative self-image, loneliness, a lack of self-confidence and depression. Other teenagers go to after school clubs with makes them active and socialise with other students. Some of them do sport, making them fit and healthy knowing that there are consequence in having bad diet.
Society has been a huge impact on young teenagers. The biggest change in the media is the impact on social networking has had on our daily live. Majority of the student have Facebook and it is used globally. On the other hand teenagers are on Facebook to socialise with other and get to know people. It’s a way of being friendly.
I guess that a lot of student wants to go to university and go so far in life and achieve thing that their parent never got to do, if they parent were brought up from a different country. Children that have a strong religious background tend to do better than students who were born in the UK. This is because if their country state or wealth. They have a well-built upbringing making them have a better job and life. There are many student achieving the highest they possibly can up to 9A*. There parent are obviously proud of them and feel that they have brought their child up appropriately.
Teenagers nowadays are overly confident and ignorant and therefore see themselves as the dominant minority. The programme skins which is distributed by E4 at 9pm which is after watershed because it reflect their stereotypical lifestyle.
Marxist was a 19th century philosopher, socialist and economist who ideas have a huge impact on ‘cultural theory’. He believed that that man made this environment, when then changed the nature of man. Human changed society and society expectation.
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