The most effective way to understand contemporary culture is to analyze the trends of its youth.
Contemporary culture can be defined as current ideas, customs and social behaviour of a society. A society on the other hand is a multi-dimensional entity covering people and groups over wide spectrum of age, professions, religions, etc. Youths form a significant part of society and their trends represent an important part of contemporary culture. However, its comprehensive understanding warrants the analysis of the trends of the society as a whole.
Admittedly, the youths are more expressive in their practices and habits. Culture is transmitted from one generation to another through them and they are the first to embrace any paradigm shift. Be it adoption of social media as a mean of socializing or ordering ‘junk food’ online, it is the youths who start a trend which later becomes part of contemporary culture. Therefore, the statement is agreeable in so far that, analyzing trends in younger population is effective in understanding contemporary culture in some respects. However, culture, or contemporary culture for that matter, is not limited to certain practices of a specific age group.
By asserting that analysis of trends in youths is enough to understand contemporary culture, the statement implies that whatever is represented by the other age groups is not a part of current culture. The adults, old and even the children are an integral part of the society and hence its culture. For instance, while looking at the clothing habits of the young in India gives the impression that ‘casual wear’ is the present dress culture, trends in mature population reveal that traditional dresses such as ‘saree’, ‘dhoti’, ‘Kurta’, etc. are proudly embraced as cultural outfits. Moreover, youths are capricious in their choices. They may start sporting a vague hair cut or start wearing atypical accessories after watching a movie. Such ephemeral habits cannot be considered contemporary culture.
Contemporary culture also corresponds to group specific behaviour and reflects a wide range of categories including political culture, religious culture, corporate culture, academic culture, etc. People falling within a particular group tend to behave similarly regardless of their age. For example, people from Sikh religion in general wear turban and sport beard irrespective of their age group. Or for example, while analysis of youths belonging to right wing political groups might give a conservative perspective of the society, youths from liberal groups portray a completely contrasting image. Furthermore, contemporary culture encompasses intangible aspects such as ideas, beliefs, values, etc. prevalent in the society. These aspects can only be grasped through analyzing the literature, education system, laws and policies of a society and even by gaining first-hand experience of living in it.
In conclusion, while analyzing trends in youths indeed gives an outlook about the emerging cultures for they are flamboyant in their habits and uptake modern trends more easily than the others, the definition of contemporary culture as a whole is not limited to some specific habits and behaviours of the youths. It spans across different social, religious and age groups and is representative of their practices, behaviour, customs, etc. Additionally, it stands for intangible social features such as values, beliefs, ideas and so on. Therefore, understanding the contemporary culture of a society in totality necessitates the analysis of trends not only across various age and social groups but also of its prevailing literature, socio-political system, etc.
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- Claim: We can usually learn much more from people whose views we share than from those whose views contradict our own.Reason: Disagreement can cause stress and inhibit learning. 83
- Society should identify those children who have special talents and provide training for them at an early age to develop their talents 92
- Nations should pass laws to preserve any remaining wilderness areas in their natural state even if these areas could be developed for economic gain 83
- We learn our most valuable lessons in life from struggling with our limitations rather than from enjoying our successes 66
- Governments should not fund any scientific research whose consequences are unclear 66
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 7, column 704, Rule ID: UPPERCASE_SENTENCE_START
Message: This sentence does not start with an uppercase letter
Suggestion: Prevalent
...ts such as ideas, beliefs, values, etc. prevalent in the society. These aspects can only ...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, furthermore, hence, however, if, look, may, moreover, similarly, so, therefore, while, for example, for instance, in conclusion, in general, such as, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 22.0 19.5258426966 113% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 5.0 12.4196629213 40% => OK
Conjunction : 22.0 14.8657303371 148% => OK
Relative clauses : 8.0 11.3162921348 71% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 26.0 33.0505617978 79% => OK
Preposition: 68.0 58.6224719101 116% => OK
Nominalization: 10.0 12.9106741573 77% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 3060.0 2235.4752809 137% => OK
No of words: 548.0 442.535393258 124% => OK
Chars per words: 5.58394160584 5.05705443957 110% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.83832613839 4.55969084622 106% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.10443456781 2.79657885939 111% => OK
Unique words: 261.0 215.323595506 121% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.476277372263 0.4932671777 97% => OK
syllable_count: 967.5 704.065955056 137% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.8 1.59117977528 113% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 6.0 6.24550561798 96% => OK
Article: 6.0 4.99550561798 120% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 3.10617977528 97% => OK
Conjunction: 2.0 1.77640449438 113% => OK
Preposition: 2.0 4.38483146067 46% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 27.0 20.2370786517 133% => OK
Sentence length: 20.0 23.0359550562 87% => OK
Sentence length SD: 66.5067423379 60.3974514979 110% => OK
Chars per sentence: 113.333333333 118.986275619 95% => OK
Words per sentence: 20.2962962963 23.4991977007 86% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.85185185185 5.21951772744 131% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 7.80617977528 13% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 11.0 10.2758426966 107% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 5.13820224719 58% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 13.0 4.83258426966 269% => Less facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.29812488208 0.243740707755 122% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0846551856849 0.0831039109588 102% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0788406320342 0.0758088955206 104% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.201594770904 0.150359130593 134% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0603141190369 0.0667264976115 90% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 15.0 14.1392134831 106% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 34.26 48.8420337079 70% => OK
smog_index: 11.2 7.92365168539 141% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 13.5 12.1743820225 111% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 15.08 12.1639044944 124% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.07 8.38706741573 108% => OK
difficult_words: 154.0 100.480337079 153% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 9.0 11.8971910112 76% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.0 11.2143820225 89% => OK
text_standard: 15.0 11.7820224719 127% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 66.67 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 4.0 Out of 6
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