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[German Version] In the early 21st century, youth studies as an empirical discipline is increasingly becoming an interdisciplinary subject, to which scholars from various fields contribute, including social anthropology, philosophy, social history, biology, psychology, education, medicine, and sociology. It embraces sociologically based attempts that draw on both single and multiple disciplines to cast light on the circumstances and lifeworlds of young people in various historical, social, cultura…

[German Version] The theory of a (distinct) youth culture or subculture among adolescents has occupied a prominent place in the ideas about youth (Youth/Adolescence) held by social scientists and educators since the turn of the 20th century, at the latest since the discovery and invention of “teenagers” in the 1950s. In the early 21st century, it now seems appropriate to bid farewell to the notion of a youth subculture. That term has frequently been replaced by the term youth culture without an emphatic sub-, not least against the background of the diverse cultural and socio-s…