Name: Tapan Kumar Sahu, Karampartap Singh
Country: India

Year: 2024
Volume: Volume-14, Issue-1 (Jan-June)
Page Number: 132- 140

Adolescent culture may not be a reflection of adult culture, but it cannot be an alienated one
also. A known fact is that western culture having its own uniqueness differs distinctly from
our Indian culture. This is easily observable in behaviours, attitudes and orientations towards
life in most of the adolescents. The prolonging economic dependence of Indian adolescents
on parents, conservative social attitude especially on hetero-sexual development etc.,
naturally give us the scope to doubt whether Indian adolescents are having any distinctive
culture either supportive or distractive. At the beginning of this twenty first century, an
accelerating change is felt in every aspect of life. It is therefore necessary to know more
about the trend of development of future generations of the coming century.
Studies done outside India gives ample evidence to believe that peer groups and friends
provide the adolescent with an arena for much of the learning that occurs in early
adoles