“青年文化”,作为具有与“成人文化”不同性质和独立地位的文化存在于现代社会里,这是战后时期才开始被逐渐认识到的。社会学家、心理学家和人类学家都对青年文化开展研究,想搞清它的含义和内容,现在他们的分析探讨主要沿着下面四个方面进行:(1)作为反文化的青年文化;(2)对工业社会里的社会化问题持抱怨态度的青年文化;(3)作为成人文化变形的模仿的青年文化;(4)作为遮掩与自主的统一体的青年文化。一、作为反文化的青年文化反文化性质的赞成者认为,青年文化是青年对成人文化及围绕社会的“规范”、“价值 “Youth culture”, as a culture with different nature and independent status from “adult culture”, exists in the modern society, which began to be gradually recognized in the postwar period. Sociologists, psychologists and anthropologists all carry out researches on youth culture and want to find out its meaning and content. Now, their analysis and discussion mainly proceed in the following four aspects: (1) As a counterculture of youth culture ; (2) a youth culture that complains about the socialization of industrial society; (3) an imitation of youth culture as an adult culture; and (4) a youth culture that is a unity and self-determination. First, as a counterculture of the anti-cultural nature of youth culture in favor of those who believe that young people’s culture of youth and the community around the “norms” and "value