Find Your Tribe implies that we are all fragmented into specific tribse and an individuals identity is constantly shifting and being shaped around this tribe. Youths use a Pick 'n' Mix method, they pick certain apsects of different tribes to create their own identity. It suggests that technology is changing the way that youths interact and shape their own identity, for example it says in the essay of What's Changing For Young People: 'technological advantages mean that people are more connected than ever before.' It then goes on to say: 'Mobile technology and the internet has meant that teenagers in 2010 have an online social life that needs maintaining.' This suggests that the internet has become youth's identity, for example many youth's use social networks such as, Facebook and online blogs such as, Tumblr, to express their identity. They do this through photo's, status' and blog entries. Online blogs give people the freedom to say what they like and to communicate with others through the internet. Although these technological advances are hugely beneficial to youth's, it does build up 'misconceptions and generalisations' (as stated in the essay) and creates a negative identity that spreads ignorance through older generations.
In the other essay on How Youth Culture In Britain Has Changed, it states that boys and girls, in the past, would dress the same and dance the same, this contrasts with youth's society today, as they now want to be unique and individual and create this by dressing differently to others. This essay also mentions how technological advantages hvae helped youths access information that helps them to shape their own identity: 'anyone with a broadband connection can access information that would previously have taken a lifetime to discover .'
Michel Mattesoli believed that the time of individualism has demolished and that people no longer follow themselves, but instead they follow popular trends of others surrounding them. These trends could demolish or change over time and he describes these as lifestyle cultures. His theory of nomadism is closely linked with his theory of modern tribes and how they're not permanent groups. He believes that lifestyle cultures are forever increasing and this proliferation of lifestyle cultures is becoming more and more rapid. The Pick 'n' Mix idea is relevant here, as Michel suggests that people follow popular trends now and therefore pick their favorouite aspects of different popular trends and use these to create an identity.
Michel's concept of identity differs hugely from the modernist concept of identity, as today it's believed that we don't follow trends, we all wish to be our own individual and different to everyone else and although we use the Pick 'n' Mix method to choose certain aspects of different tribes to create our own identity, we still make it unique and our own.
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