What the most effective approach to understand contemporary culture in society? Someone claims that researchers should resort to the youth. From my perspective, it is undeniably true that the youth epitomize the trend for certain irreplaceable components of contemporary culture. However, this doesn't means that such strategy could always works effectively as expected. Furthermore, a more systematic methodology should be formulated to decide what and how to perceive cultures in society.
Before going further, it is necessary to clarify with the definition of culture in advance. Contemporary culture often refers to common themes or beliefs during the present time. In most case, they are closely associated with certain groups, whose participants initially coin, further develop and descend to the successors. With this brief clarification, we can continue with our discussion about how to effectively evaluate them.
To start off, if we want to quickly grasp with characteristic of certain popular trend, we should with no hesitation pore over the youth group, as they are more likely to represent the trend for popular culture. On one hand, teenagers are so vigorous, innovative that great ideas are more likely to spring from them. That is to say, what they are engaging might become social trend in future. Even if such predilection seems insular or peculiar to some extent, advocating more participants in youth and continuing to propagate in larger groups could generate more impact later. On the contrary, customs in the elder are more disposed to reduce impacts, especially when conservation and inheritance couldn't be guaranteed. For example, the emergence of social media, such as Facebook, WhatsApp and Webchat, burgeon from the youth and gradually involved for a boarder audience.
Furthermore, tenable as this issue hold in most case that investigation for the youth could enable us to capture with overall understanding of popular trend, I contended that it doesn’t work for all of cases, since cultures might encompass diverse categories besides the youth. In this place, the youth might not be willing to enjoin with some cultures, especially the archaic ones, therefore sticking to take them as major responder seems unreasonable. Additionally, by taking the youth as major benchmark for contemporary culture, the author assumes that age plays a significant role in culture and the youth is the most important component in relation to age. But cultures, like literature, politic, are likely to be untrammeled and even reverse with age. For example, Kunqu opera occupies a significant position in Chinese contemporary culture. But current teenagers prefer to popular music rather than this traditional comedy. Can certain research of Kunqu operas still stick to the youth? Perhaps not.
Last but not least, the real challenge lies on how to figure out a systematic way for effective evaluation of researched culture. Of course, this is not a simple question that can be covered in such a short response. However, a brief summarization could shred lights for further work. The first question is to answer what culture for the target research. The ensuing question is what major participants of such culture and how those are subject to impact of different factors, such as age, geography, and so on. Last, we need to consider if participants keep stable as time evolves. It is only through such comprehensive investigation that we can estimate whether endeavors to research on such participants will be effective. Expanding our Kunqu opera case. If we understand that fans of Kunqu operas come from Nanjing, Suzhou in Southern part of China, and majority of them possess higher academic degree, it is judicious to launch further campaign for background analysis in universities located in Nanjing and Suzhou. Without such clear premeditation, we can guarantee neither accuracy nor effectiveness of our research work.
In summary, it is beneficial to research for the youth in order to get a brief picture for popular trend. However, as discussed above, not all of category of contemporary cultures are effectively subject to this approach. Therefore, before hastily taking action, it is necessary to deliberate our target research culture in a methodical way to guarantee the ultimate efficacy.
What the most effective approach to understand
contemporary
culture
in society? Someone claims that researchers should resort to the
youth
. From my perspective, it is
undeniably
true that the
youth
epitomize the
trend
for
certain
irreplaceable components of
contemporary
culture
.
However
, this doesn't
means
that such strategy could always
works
effectively
as
expected
.
Furthermore
, a more systematic methodology should
be formulated
to decide what and how to perceive
cultures
in society.
Before
going
further
, it is necessary to clarify with the definition of
culture
in advance.
Contemporary
culture
often
refers to common themes or beliefs during the present time. In most case, they are
closely
associated with
certain
groups, whose
participants
initially
coin,
further
develop and descend to the successors. With this brief clarification, we can continue with our discussion about how to
effectively
evaluate them.
To
start
off, if we want to
quickly
grasp with characteristic of
certain
popular
trend
, we should with no hesitation pore over the
youth
group, as they are more likely to represent the
trend
for
popular
culture
. On one hand,
teenagers
are
so
vigorous, innovative that great
ideas
are more likely to spring from them.
That is
to say, what they are engaging might become social
trend
in future
. Even if such predilection seems insular or peculiar to
some
extent, advocating more
participants
in
youth
and continuing to propagate in larger groups could generate more impact later.
On the contrary
, customs in the elder are more disposed to
reduce
impacts,
especially
when conservation and inheritance couldn't
be guaranteed
.
For example
, the emergence of social media, such as Facebook, WhatsApp and
Webchat
, burgeon from the
youth
and
gradually
involved for a boarder audience.
Furthermore
, tenable as this issue hold in most case that investigation for the
youth
could enable us to capture with
overall
understanding of
popular
trend
, I contended that it doesn’t work for
all of cases
, since
cultures
might encompass diverse categories
besides
the
youth
. In this place, the
youth
might not be willing to enjoin with
some
cultures
,
especially
the archaic ones,
therefore
sticking to take them as major responder seems unreasonable.
Additionally
, by taking the
youth
as major benchmark for
contemporary
culture
, the author assumes that
age
plays a significant role in
culture
and the
youth
is the most
important
component in relation to
age
.
But
cultures
, like literature, politic, are likely to
be untrammeled
and even reverse with
age
.
For example
,
Kunqu
opera
occupies a significant position in Chinese
contemporary
culture
.
But
current
teenagers
prefer to
popular
music
rather
than this traditional comedy. Can
certain
research
of
Kunqu
operas
still
stick to the
youth
? Perhaps not.
Last
but
not least, the real challenge lies on how to figure out a systematic way for effective evaluation of researched
culture
.
Of course
, this is not a simple question that can
be covered
in such a short response.
However
, a brief summarization could shred lights for
further
work. The
first
question is to answer what
culture
for the target
research
. The ensuing question is what major
participants
of such
culture
and how those are subject to impact of
different
factors, such as
age
, geography, and
so
on. Last, we need to consider if
participants
keep
stable as time evolves. It is
only
through such comprehensive investigation that we can estimate whether endeavors to
research
on such
participants
will be effective. Expanding our
Kunqu
opera
case. If we understand that fans of
Kunqu
operas
come
from Nanjing, Suzhou in Southern part of China, and
majority of
them possess higher academic degree, it is judicious to launch
further
campaign for background analysis in universities located in Nanjing and Suzhou. Without such
clear
premeditation, we can guarantee neither accuracy nor effectiveness of our
research
work.
In summary, it is beneficial to
research
for the
youth
in order to
get
a brief picture for
popular
trend
.
However
, as discussed above, not
all of category
of
contemporary
cultures
are
effectively
subject to this approach.
Therefore
,
before
hastily
taking action, it is necessary to deliberate our target
research
culture
in a methodical way
to guarantee the ultimate efficacy.