Synopsis
The teens are often years of extreme emotion. Daily life at school and home can be boring, but the teens can also be great. Do we really want to go back to ''the best years of your life''?
- Programme: Almost Grown
- Episode: 2: The Best Years Of My Life
- Channel: BBC Two
- Broadcast year: 1990
- Sociology | How are youth subcultures formed? Why do they develop? | Theoretical views of the role of youth culture and subcultures: functionalism, Marxism/neo-Marxism, feminism, postmodernism. Subcultures.
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