Youth in Transition: review of chapter 3 and 5

2. Youth, cultures and societies in transition:
The challenges of growing up in a globalized
world
Jeffrey Jensen Arnett
Journal of Adolescent Research

3. hello!
We are
Tamanna Jahan Disha
Reun Tanzin
Marzia Fatema
Nishat Zareen
Sarah Ahmed

4. ▸The term youth transition deals with the
different types of transitions that young
people go through from childhood into
adulthood.
▸Essentially, there can be 3 sorts of youth
transitions.
- School-to-work transition (completing full-time
education and securing full time paid employment.)
-Family transition (moving from dependence upon the
family to relative independence.)
- Housing transition (leaving home and living away
from parents.)

5. Global Youth Tansition

6. 👨Young people have
dependably needed to
make the move from
youth and puberty to
adulthood, in all spots and
all circumstances. It is a
natural piece of human
advancement, to achieve
adolescence, grow full
physical and sexual
development, and enter
into a full grown-up
status.
▸👨 Virtually, every society
has some means of
recognizing the transition
to adulthood e.g. age of
marriage or birth of the
first child or making legal
distinctions that check a
certain age as the
isolating line amongst
adolescence and
adulthood (Arnett, 1998;
Arnett, in press)

7. Globalization is perhaps
the word that best
portrays the condition of
the world in the early 21st
century. No part of the
world today is untouched
by globalization.

8. .▸It has both positive features and negative features.
The central feature of transition that today’s youth
are facing is that, ‘transformations in identity’ i.e.
how people think about themselves in relation to
social environments.
▸There are four aspects of identity that stand out as
issues related to youth in transition in a globalizing
world.
I. most youth in the world now develop a bicultural
identity, one rooted in their local culture and the
other stemming from an awareness of their relation
to the global culture.

9. ii. the pervasiveness of identity confusion
may be increasing among young people in
non-Western cultures. As their local culture
changes in response to globalization, some
youth find themselves at home in neither the
local culture nor the global culture.

10. iii. In every society there are youth who choose to
join self-selected cultures with like-minded persons
who wish to have an identity that will be untainted
by the global culture and its values.
iv. identity explorations in love and work are
increasingly stretching beyond the adolescent
years (roughly 10-18) into a post-adolescent
period of emerging adulthood, roughly ages 18-29.

11. Bicultural Identity
▸Bicultural identity is the condition of being oneself
regarding the combination of two cultures, possessing a local
identity and a global identity. Their global identity allows them
to communicate with people from diverse places when they
travel from home, when others travel to where they live, and
when they communicate with people in other places via
media technology (such as e-mail).

12. Identity
confusion
As local cultures change in response to
globalization, most youth manage to
adapt to the changes and develop a
bicultural or hybrid identity that provides
the basis for living in their local culture
and also participating in the global
culture.

13. ▸Identity confusion among
young people may be
reflected in problems such
as depression, suicide,
and substance use. A
variety of cultures have
experienced a sharp
increase in suicide and
substance use among their
young people since their
rapid move toward joining
the global culture.

14. Self-selected
Culture
globalization it threatens to create a homogeneous
worldwide culture. But cultural diversity will continue to exist
because, some youth will choose to become part of a self-
selected culture that provides more meaning and structure
than the global culture. Most youth jump with enthusiasm
onto the global bandwagon, but there will always be those
who will seek deliberately to mark themselves off as
different, as people who refuse to join the herd. Some do
this by joining a self-selected culture of fellow dissenters.

15. “Often these self-selected cultures have a religious
basis. In In global culture religious values exist in
one form that is “value of tolerance”, it means that
religious values should not be a source of
discrimination or conflict.

16. “self-selected cultures may also
be non-religious.
For example: In Samoa there has been a recent
revival of the traditional rite of decorating the
bodies of male youth. Previously this ritual was
essential to show sexual attractiveness and to
achieve adult male status. But nowadays they
practice it so that their indigenous culture might
not be absorbed by the global culture

17. The Spread of
Emerging Adulthood

18. “Another worldwide change promoted by
globalization is visual in the timing of the transitions
to adult roles such as work, marriage, and
parenthood. The timing of these transitions is
occurring later for youth in every part of the world.
Because of Globalization young people increasingly
gain control over their own lives as a result they
choose to wait longer to enter marriage and
parenthood. The median ages for these transitions
are in the late twenties in every industrialized
society.

19. “
a. Instability is a characteristic of emerging
adulthood.
b. Self-focused exploration of possibilities in
love, work, and worldviews
Characteristics of emerging adulthood

20. “▸Globalization spreads emerging adulthood
because globalization promotes economic
development and a high level of economic
development is necessary in order for a period of
emerging adulthood to exist. In developing countries
emerging adulthood exists only for the young people
of wealthier segment of society.

21. What will be the future of
globalization for today’s youth?

22. “
Globalization is creating pressure upon
local cultures to move toward the global
norm.
Even if cultures continue to maintain
their diversity, it seems not possible that
the diversity will be as great as it was
prior to globalization. All cultures are
moving toward certain common
characteristics that they did not have in
common in the past.

23. “
Will the entire
world ultimately
be integrated into
a single Global
Culture?

24. All cultures are moving
toward certain common
characteristics that they
did not have in common
in the past. Despite
having a common base,
culture will continue to
vary because of
different psychological
offered by individualism
and collectivism.
It seems that all cultures
have elements both and
but the balance between
them varies widely. With
increased economic
development, the basis
for the balance of
individualism and
collectivism that is chosen
in any culture becomes
less economic and more
psychological.

25. World’s most highly developed
nations are more individualistic.
Developing countries will likewise choose
different balances of individualism and
collectivism as they industrialize and become
more integrated into the global economy. All of
them will become more individualistic as a
consequence of globalization, but that does not
mean that their youth will become as
individualistic.

26. Now.. What could be the challenges for Bangladesh
Youth Population growing up in a globalized world?

27. Impacts of the globalized world on Bangladeshi Youth
Population
The globalization process offers both
opportunities and poses challenge for Bangladesh.
It has both positive as well as negative impacts.
The positive impacts include :
▸Influence on parliamentary democracy and adult
franchise,
▸A global outlook and modern mindset of the
people,
▸the positive effect on education,
environment
▸women emancipation,
▸ access to IT,

28. Impacts of the globalized world on Bangladeshi Youth Population
(cont’d)
▸joint-venture entrepreneurship and the availability of
high quality and low cost products.
The negative impacts include
▸ the downfall of local industries and products and
competitiveness resulting in local unemployment,
▸ the threats to the survival of culture, community
norms, ethics and values,
▸ the widening of the gap between the rich and poor;
and the foreign dominance and dependency on
investors.

29. Conclusion:
Culture is constantly changing its path through the journey of
civilization. Now it is the burning question what is going to take
place under the pavilion of speedy civilization. Our culture will be
lost its glamour when our next generation will open their door.
Globalization, a name of reckless truck where our young generation
find for the secured seat. Their choices allow them to expand their
identity that will exist forever. Otherwise globalization takes part in
every traditional steps of culture for the betterment of youngers.

30. Reference:
1. Gale, Fay, and Stepanie Fahey. Youth in Transition
the Challenges of Generational Change in Asia.
Bangkok: Regional Unit for Social and Human Sciences
in Asia and the Pacific (RUSHSAP), UNESCO, 2005.
2. Hussain, Sharif Md Abul. "Challenges of
Globalization: How Bangladesh Can Adapt Itself to
Reap the Best Benefits in the 21st Century." MIST
Journal: GALAXY (DHAKA) 3.0 (2011): n. pag. Web.

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