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A youth movement is any attempt to organize individual young people into a unified identity. According to one organization, "A growing number of organizations and individuals are calling for a worldwide youth movement, built around information technology
Information technology

Information technology , as defined by the Information Technology Association of America , is "the study, design, development, implementation, support or management of computer-based information systems, particularly software applications and computer hardware." IT deals with the use of electronic computers and computer software to data conv...
, political and social action, and other platforms." There are a seemingly infinite number of youth movements, both historical and contemporary in nature.








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A youth movement is any attempt to organize individual young people into a unified identity. According to one organization, "A growing number of organizations and individuals are calling for a worldwide youth movement, built around information technology
Information technology

Information technology , as defined by the Information Technology Association of America , is "the study, design, development, implementation, support or management of computer-based information systems, particularly software applications and computer hardware." IT deals with the use of electronic computers and computer software to data conv...
, political and social action, and other platforms." There are a seemingly infinite number of youth movements, both historical and contemporary in nature.

See also

  • List of youth empowerment organizations
    List of youth empowerment organizations

    This is a list of organizations that promote, advocate, or otherwise affiliate with youth empowerment. This is an incomplete list which can or may never satisfy any objective standard for completeness....
  • International Youth Day
    International Youth Day

    International Youth Day is an awareness day designated by the United Nations. The first IYD was on 12 August 2000. As with other political awareness days, such as Earth Day, the purpose of the day is to draw attention to a given set of cultural and legal issues surrounding an endangered demographic....
  • Global Youth Service Day
  • National Service Learning Conference
    National Service Learning Conference

    The National Service-Learning Conference, first held in 1988 to serve as "the largest gathering of youths and practitioners from the service-learning movement." The conference is a program of the National Youth Leadership Council, and is hosted annually by partner organizations in the state or region where it is being held....


Contemporary youth movements

  • Children's rights
    Children's rights

    A Childs rights are the human rights of children with particular attention to the rights of special protection and care afforded to the young, including their right to association with both biological parents, Human nature as well as the basic needs for food, universal state-paid education, health care and criminal laws appropriate for the age...
  • Scouting
    Scouting

    Scouting, also known as the Scout Movement, is a worldwide youth movement with the stated aim of supporting young people in their physical, mental and spiritual development, so that they may play constructive roles in society....
  • Youth participation
    Youth participation

    Youth participation is the active engagement of young people throughout their communities. It is often used as a short-hand for youth participation in any many forms, including decision-making, sports, schools and any activity where young people are not historically engaged....
  • Youth movement "Uprising"
  • Student voice
    Student voice

    Student voice describes the distinct perspectives and actions of young people throughout schools focused on education....
  • Youth service
    Youth service

    Youth service refers to non-military, intensive engagement of young people in organized activity that contributes to the local, national, or world community....
  • Youth rights
    Youth rights

    Youth rights refers to a set of philosophies intended to enhance civil rights for Adolescent. They are a response to the perceived oppression of young people, with advocates challenging ephebiphobia, adultism and ageism through youth participation, youth/adult partnerships, and ultimately, intergenerational equity....
  • Youth development
    Youth development

    Youth development or adolescent development is the process through which adolescences acquire the cognitive, social, and emotional skills and abilities required to navigate life....
  • Youth voice
    Youth voice

    Youth voice refers to the distinct ideas, opinions, attitude s, knowledge, and Action s of youth as a collective body. The term youth voice often groups together a diversity of perspectives and experiences, regardless of backgrounds, identities, and cultural differences....
  • Zionist youth movement
    Zionist youth movement

    A Zionist youth movement is an organization formed for Jewish children and adolescents for educational, social, and ideology development, including a belief in Jewish nationalism as represented in the State of Israel....
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  • Youth empowerment
    Youth empowerment

    Youth empowerment is an attitudinal, structural, and cultural process whereby young people gain the ability, authority, and agency to make decisions and implement change in their own lives and the lives of other people, including youth and adults....
  • Hip hop
    Hip hop

    Hip hop is a cultural movement built largely around the music genre of hip hop music, which developed in New York City during the 1970s primarily among African Americans and Latino Americans....
  • German Youth Movement
    German Youth Movement

    The German Youth Movement is a collective term for educational-cultural renewal movement starting from 1896 on. It consists of numerous associations of young people focused on outdoor activities....
  • Straight Edge
    Straight edge

    Straight Edge refers to a lifestyle that started within the hardcore punk subculture whose adherents make a lifetime commitment to refrain from drinking alcohol, using tobacco products, and taking recreational drugs....


Historical youth movements

  • Hippies
  • Punks
  • Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
    Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee

    The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee or SNCC was one of the principal organizations of the African-American Civil Rights Movement in the 1960s....
     (SNCC)
  • Students for a Democratic Society
    Students for a Democratic Society (1960 organization)

    Students for a Democratic Society was, historically, a student activism movement in the United States that was one of the main iconic representations of the country's New Left....
     (SDS)
  • Hitler Youth
    Hitler Youth

    The Hitler Youth was a paramilitary organization of the Nazi Party. It existed from 1922 to 1945. The HJ was the second oldest paramilitary Nazi group, founded one year after its adult counterpart, the Sturmabteilung ....
  • American Youth Congress
    American Youth Congress

    American Youth Congress was an early youth voice organization composed of youth from all across the country to discuss the problems facing youth as a whole in the 1930s....
  • Communist Youth Movement


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